Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hiruta, Kei (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Philosophers in Depth
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political science.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.

This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called "the raison d'être of politics": freedom. The unique collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political freedom in relation to other key Arendtian themes such as liberation, revolution, civil disobedience, an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1- Introduction- Kei Hiruta
• Chapter 2 - Hannah Arendt, Liberalism, and Freedom from Politics- Kei Hiruta
• Chapter 3 - Arendt, Republicanism, and Political Freedom - Keith Breen
• Chapter 4 - Romanticizing the Republic: Hannah Arendt on Freedom, Rights, and the Modern State - Christian J. Emden
• Chapter 5 - Resisting Injustice: Arendt on Civil Disobedience and the Social Contract - William Smith and Zhang Shiyu
• Chapter 6 - Hannah Arendt on National Liberation, Violence, and Federalism- Tal Correm
• Chapter 7 - Solidarity at the Margins: Arendt, Refugees, and the Inclusive Politics of World-Making- Patrick Hayden and Natasha Saunders
• Chapter 8 - Arendt's Revolutionary Antiquity - Miriam Leonard
• Chapter 9 - Constitutions are the Answer!:Hannah Arendt and the Egyptian Revolution - Anthony F Lang Jr.
• Chapter 10 - The Centrality of the Council System in Arendt's Political Theory - Shmuel Lederman
• Chapter 11 - An Epilogue-or Epitaph?-for Freedom, Liberation, Revolution - Joan Cocks.