{"product_id":"thinking-in-dark-times-hannah-arendt-on-ethics-and-politics-9780823230761","title":"Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eHannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century. In her works, she grappled with the dark events of that century, probing the nature of power, authority, and evil, and seeking to confront totalitarian horrors on their own terms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking. Indeed, she argues that the activity of thinking is the only reliable protection against the horrors that buffeted the last century. Its essays explore and enact that activity, which Arendt calls the habit of erecting obstacles to oversimplifications, compromises, and conventions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost of the essays were written for a conference at Bard College celebrating the 100th anniversary of Arendt's birth. Arendt left her personal library and literary effects to Bard, and she is buried in the Bard College cemetery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaterial from the Bard archive--such as a postcard to Arendt from Walter Benjamin or her annotation in her copy of Machiavelli's The Prince--and images from her life are interspersed with the essays in this volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume will offer provocations and insights to Arendt scholars, students discovering Arendt's work, and general readers attracted to Arendt's vision of the importance of thinking in our own dark times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Berkowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823230761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/09\/2009 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Berkowitz (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roger Berkowitz is the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Associate Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Philosophy at Bard College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Katz (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey Katz is Dean of Information Services and Director of Libraries at Bard College and\u003cbr\u003eExecutive Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Keenan (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134688583795,"sku":"9780823230761","price":86.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7ca7420b-e8df-47f2-9dd0-b3a750438e01.jpg?v=1782391029","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/thinking-in-dark-times-hannah-arendt-on-ethics-and-politics-9780823230761","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}