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From the critique of identity to plurality in politics : reconsidering Adorno and ArendtIn Lars Rensmann & Samir Gandesha (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: political and philosophical investigations, Stanford University Press. 2012.
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3Hannah Arendt: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2023.This Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical ideas and political theories of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). As a survivor of the Holocaust, Arendt's life informed her work exploring the meaning and construction of power, evil, totalitarianism, and direct democracy. Through insightful readings of Arendt's best-known works, from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) to The Life of the Mind (1978), Dana Villa traces the importance of Arendt's ideas for today's reader. In so doing, Villa expl…Read more
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513. Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political TheoryIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 224-246. 2000.
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8CHAPTER 8. Heidegger, Poixsis, and PoliticsIn Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, Princeton University Press. pp. 241-270. 1995.
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9ArendtRoutledge. 2021."Hannah Arendt was a philosopher and political theorist of astonishing range and originality and one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. A former student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, she fled Nazi Germany to Paris in 1933, and subsequently escaped from Vichy France to New York in 1941. The Origins of Totalitarianism made her famous. After visiting professorships at Princeton, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, she took up a permanent position at the New School in 196…Read more
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49Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the PoliticalPrinceton University Press. 1995.Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the prevailing "Aristotelian" interpretation of her work, Villa explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through t…Read more
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18Socratic CitizenshipPrinceton University Press. 2001.Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville's ''nation of joiners'' seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of citizenship or the responsibilities of self-government. In response, the critics urge community involvement and renewed education in the civic virtues. But what kind of civic engagement do we want, and what sort of citizenship should we encourage? In Socratic Citizenship, Dana Villa takes issue with thos…Read more
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27Public FreedomPrinceton University Press. 2008.Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity."--BOOK JACKET.
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58The judge and the spectator: Hannah Arendt's political philosophy (edited book)Peeters. 1999.While thinking remains a solitary activity, it does not cut itself off from all others. in this book address the philosophical and moral questions raised by ...
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314. The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social TheoryIn John P. McCormick & Peter E. Gordon (eds.), Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, Princeton University Press. pp. 73-98. 2013.
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121The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work, from her theory of totalitarianism and her controversial idea of the 'banality of evil' to her classic studies of political action and her final reflections on judgment and the life of the mind. Each essay examines the political, philosophical, and …Read more
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33The “Autonomy of the Political” ReconsideredGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (1): 29-45. 2007.
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4The “Autonomy of the Political” ReconsideredGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (1): 29-45. 2007.
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35Review Essays: Tocqueville: Life and Legacy: Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 736pp. $35.00 . Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism by Roger Boesche. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 217pp. $70.00 (review)Political Theory 36 (3): 466-472. 2008.
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106Review article: Arendt and totalitarianism: Contexts of interpretationEuropean Journal of Political Theory 10 (2): 287-296. 2011.
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567Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah ArendtPrinceton University Press. 1999.Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining c…Read more
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48Max Weber: Integrity, Disenchantment, and the Illusions of PoliticsConstellations 6 (4): 540-560. 1999.
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List of abbreviationsIn Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, Princeton University Press. 1995.
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6INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Action in ArendtIn Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-14. 1995.
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26Hannah Arendt: Socratic Citizenship and Philosophical CritiqueResearch in Phenomenology 50 (2): 143-160. 2020.In this essay I trace the relationship between philosophy and politics in Hannah Arendt’s work, with specific reference to the tension between her Socratic commitments and her appeal to “common sense” or sensus communis. I argue Arendt’s idea of a “common sense of the world” gives rise to a conception of the public realm that has too much shape and integrity to fit the often misty and particulate nature of contemporary reality. This is not the familiar critique of Arendt as a nostalgic Grecophil…Read more
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13Chapter three. The anxiety of influence: On arendt’s relationship to HeideggerIn Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Princeton University Press. pp. 61-86. 1999.
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11CHAPTER 6. The Critique of ModernityIn Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, Princeton University Press. pp. 171-208. 1995.
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16Chapter seven. The philosopher versus the citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and socratesIn Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Princeton University Press. pp. 155-179. 1999.
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34Chapter two. Conscience, the banality of evil, and the idea of a representative perpetratorIn Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Princeton University Press. pp. 39-60. 1999.
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14CHAPTER 2. Thinking Action against the TraditionIn Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, Princeton University Press. pp. 42-79. 1995.