The political humanism of Hannah Arendt / Michael McCarthy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and index.

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Preface; Introduction: the Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt; Notes; 1 THE CITY IN RUINS; Totalitarianism as a Limit Situation; The Burden of Our Time; The Sources of Our Political Crisis; Notes; 2 LOOK TO THE GREAT AND COMMON WORLD; The Spirit of Arendtian Politics; The Cultural Convictions of Modernity; The Victory of the Animal Laborans; Notes; 3 OUR TRADITION OF POLITICAL THOUGHT; Overcoming Tradition; Greek Political Philosophy; The Platonic Inheritance; Aristotle's Practical Philosophy; Poiesis and Praxis; Ruling and Being Ruled; The Best Way to Live; Notes.

4 THE MARXIST REVERSALS OF TRADITIONProgress and Disillusion; Dialectical Materialism; The Critique of Capitalism; The Arendtian Critique of Marx; The Glorification of Labor and the Naturalization of Man; Violence as the Essence of Politics; The Science of Historical Necessity; Marxism As Ideology: An Arendtian Critique; The Merits and Limitations of Marxism; Notes; 5 THE DISCONTENTS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY and THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF ARENDTIAN THOUGHT; PART I; The Critical Appropriation of Tradition; The Old and the New; The Discontents of Liberal Democracy; A Crisis of Legitimacy.

The Promise and Perils of GlobalizationAmerican Democracy Revisited; Toward a New Progressive Agenda; E Pluribus Unum: The Challenge of Contemporary Pluralism; PART II; The Critique of Liberalism; Public Liberty; Participation and Representation; The Primacy of Politics Over Economics; The Social Question Revisited: Distributive Justice and Political Equality; The Renewal of Civil Society; The Common World and the Common Good; Healing the Rift Between Thought and Action: The Importance of Practical Wisdom; Is There A Way To Get There From Here?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It is a sympathetic appraisal of the high promise and great perils of the political life (the bios politikos).

English.

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