Hannah Arendt and the politics of friendship

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Hannah Arendt and the politics of friendship

Jon Nixon

Bloomsbury, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of four lifelong friendships -- with Heinrich Blucher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. The book draws on correspondence from both sides, illuminating our understanding of the social contexts within which Arendt's thinking developed and was clarified. It offers a cultural history of ideas: shedding light on two core ideas in Arendt - of 'plurality' and 'promise', and on how those particular ideas emerged through a particular set of relationships, at a significant moment in the history of the West. This book offers an original and accessible 'way in' to Arendt's work for students and scholars of politics, philosophy, intellectual history and literature.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 A child of the time Chapter 2 Friendship and plurality Chapter 3 Friendship as promise Chapter 4 Arendt and Heidegger: the struggle for friendship Chapter 5 Arendt and Jaspers: becoming worldly Chapter 6 Arendt and McCarthy: becoming our selves Chapter 7 Arendt and Blucher: flourishing together Chapter 8 The hermeneutics of friendship Chapter 9 The republic of friendship Epilogue: A woman of the world Appendix: Outline chronology of Arendt's life and works References Index

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