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Politik als Anti-Metaphysik

Rekonstruktion und Kritik der politischen Theorie Hannah Arendts
Karl Alber,  2023, 135 Pages

ISBN 978-3-495-99645-4

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englischIn Hannah Arendt's political theory, thinking does not precede action; instead, thinking follows from action, because thinking is ‘apolitical’. Arendt first determines politics (action) as the opposite of philosophy (thinking) and later explains the primacy of politics: politics, which follows from the reversal of the metaphysical hierarchy, can be reconstructed as anti-metaphysics. However, the method of reversing the metaphysical hierarchy is fraught with difficulties that justify the critique of the primacy of politics as the central condition of a political theory, because the price of the primacy of politics is the loss of the individual’s autonomy.

Because one cannot understand Arendt's political theory (in terms of content) without recognising the (systemic) dichotomy between politics and philosophy, this book contains a glossary which explains what meaning the terms listed have in her political theory.

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