Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility

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Indiana University Press, 2006/09/29 - 184 ページ

Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more complex view of how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights. Birmingham considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings, especially those on Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, to reveal the extent of Arendt's commitment to humanity even as violence, horror, and pessimism overtook Europe during World War II and its aftermath. This current and lively book makes a significant contribution to philosophy, political science, and European intellectual history.

 

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The Problem of Human Rights
1
The Ontological Foundation of Human Rights
4
Freedom Power and the Right to Have Rights
35
Appearance Singularity and the Right to Have Rights
70
4 The Predicament of Common Responsibility
104
The Political Institution of the Right to Have Rights
132
Notes
143
Work Cited
155
Index
159
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Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is co-editor of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics and co-translator of Dominique Janicaud's Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994).

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書籍名Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility
Studies in Continental Thought
著者Peg Birmingham
出版社Indiana University Press, 2006
ISBN0253112265, 9780253112262
ページ数184 ページ
  
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