¿Qué es la política?
1993
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Nouvelle édition augmentée. La philosophie et la théologie parlent de l’homme, de l’homme en général. Qu’il y ait un seul homme, ou deux hommes, ou des milliers, ce qu’elles affirment de l’homme reste valide. Il en va de même des approches scientifiques de l’homme : en biologie et en psychologie, on étudie l’homme, de même qu’en zoologie, il n’y a que le lion ou le singe.Il en va autrement en politique. La politique repose sur la multiplicité et la pluralité des hommes. Elle traite de la communauté et de la réciprocité d’êtres différents. En apparence, elle ne parvient jamais à la profondeur de la philosophie et de la théologie. Et pourtant, la politique, cet espace intermédiaire où se joue la liberté, où agissent les hommes libres, peut devenir le lieu même de la profondeur humaine.Traduit de l''allemand par Sylvie Courtine-Denamy et de l''anglais par Sylvie Taussig.
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Hannah Arendt
Author · 65 books
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).
