Communication ethics in dark times : Hannah Arendt's rhetoric of warning and hope / Ronald C. Arnett.

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Renowned in the disciplines of political theory and philosophy, Hannah Arendt's searing critiques of modernity continue to resonate in other fields of thought decades after she wrote them. In Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt's Rhetoric of Warning and Hope, author Ronald C. Arnett offers a groundbreaking examination of fifteen of Arendt's major scholarly works, considering the German writer's contributions to the areas of rhetoric and communication ethics for the first time. Arnett focuses on Arendt's use of the phrase "dark times" to describe the mist.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Modernity as Gollum-Arendt's Warning; 1. The Derivative Self and the Responsive Turn: Love and Saint Augustine; 2. The Desire to Belong: Rahel Varnhagen; 3. Totalization and Organized Loneliness: The Origins of Totalitarianism; 4. A Community of Memory at Risk: Between Past and Future; 5. Modernity's Amnesia, Forgotten Existential Demands: The Human Condition; 6. The Taken-for-Granted: On Revolution; 7. The Banality of Evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem; 8. The Temporality of Judgment: Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy.

9. Lamp Holders and Holy Sparks: Men in Dark Times10. Forgotten Roots: Crises of the Republic; 11. Recovering Human Meaning, the Silent Side of Speech: Essays in Understanding; 12. Otherwise Than Convention: Responsibility and Judgment; 13. An Enlarged Mentality: The Promise of Politics; 14. Clarity of a Situated and Responsive Voice: The Jewish Writings; 15. Navigating Darkness: Responsibility and The Life of the Mind; 16. Countering the Magic of Modernity: Meeting Darkness and Rejecting Artificial Light; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover.

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