The Contradictions of Hannah Arendt's Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Canovan (Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-26 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009059177800600102 |
| OpenAlex | W2000877273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
Hannah Arendt's political thought is baffling even to the most sympathetic reader. It is baffling not only because of her fondness for questioning our established certainties, and not only because her political values are strange and shocking to us,' but most importantly because her thought is riven by a deep and serious inconsistency and confused by a persistent uncertainty of stance. The serious inconsistency lies between what may for the sake of brevity be called Arendt's elitist and her democratic aspects. She can be read as one of the most radical of democrats. Her political ideal is a vision of ancient Athens, a polity in which there were neither rulers nor ruled, but all citizens were equal within the agora, acting among their peers. She asserts that every man is a new beginning, and is capable of acting in such a way that no one, not even he himself, can know what he may achieve. She cites again and again the revolutionary situations in which the people have sprung spontaneously into action, and she shares Jefferson's desire to perpetuate that revolutionary impulse by means of direct democratic participation. However, if
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O papel da desobediência civil em sociedades de massas não-totalitárias em Arendt
A construção política da identidade
On the Concept of Power
The Spirit of Democracy
Taming the Extraordinary
The Politics of Leisure in Totalitarian Societies
Power and Political Theory
The impurity of praxis
Zur Rezeption der griechischen Polis bei Hannah Arendt
Thinking and Killing
Responsible innovation between virtue and governance
Arendt's argument for the council system
Philanthropy
The controversy of compassion as an awakening to our conflicted social condition
Ancient equality against modern democracy
Political Theory within and without Political Science
The Lost Treasure of Arendt's Council System
City networks’ power in global agri-food systems
The vita activa of Hannah Arendt
Arendt, free will, and action
Hannah Arendt
Neoliberalism, Hedonism and the Dying Public
Councils and Revolution
Anarcho-Republicanism
Cotton certification in Ethiopia
Redefining empowerment in mental health
Hannah Arendt autora e paciente
The Archimedean point and eccentricity
Not one inconvenient truth, but many
Undocumented Migrants
Existentialism Politicized
Spaces of Appearance and Spaces of Surveillance
What would I do
Civil society and democracy
The early Sartre and Arendt on action
A phrônesis, o herói e a pólis
Hannah Arendt's Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy
Oases in the Desert
A Relação Entre O Papel Do Trabalho E a Crescente Perda De Condições De Ação Política Nos Estados Neoliberais Contemporâneos
Between shame and a shared world
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,03 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |