Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy A People's Utopia /

• Main Author: Lederman, Shmuel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Political science.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.; Social Philosophy.

This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought: her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils would replace contemporary representative democracy and allow citizens to participate directly in decision-makin...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Federations, Councils, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
• Chapter 3: Democracy and the Political
• Chapter 4: Philosophy, Politics, and Participatory Democracy in Arendt
• Chapter 5: The Actor does not Judge: Arendt's Theory of Judgment
• Chapter 6:Facing the Banality of Evil: Arendt's Political Response to Eichmann
• Chapter 7: The Social and the Political
• Chapter 8: Arendt and the Council Tradition
• Chapter 9: Arendt and the Current Participatory Moment
• Chapter 10: Conclusion: A People's Utopia.