Hannah Arendt: Responsibility and Judgment, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Responsibility and Judgment
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 08/2005
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805211627
- Item number:
- 6105438
- Volume:
- 336 Pages
- Weight:
- 372 g
- Format:
- 209 x 160 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 9.8.2005
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
- Overall sales rank: 6931
- Sales rank in Books: 148
Blurb
Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, "Some Questions of Moral Philosophy," in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral "truths" as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We also see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed.
Responsibility and Judgment is an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time.
Biography
Hannah Arendt, am 14. Oktober 1906 in Hannover geboren und am 4. Dezember 1975 in New York gestorben, studierte Philosophie, Theologie und Griechisch unter anderem bei Heidegger, Bultmann und Jaspers, bei dem sie 1928 promovierte. 1933 Emigration nach Paris, ab 1941 in New York. 1946 bis 1948 Lektorin, danach als freie Schriftstellerin tätig. 1963 Professorin für Politische Theorie in Chicago, ab 1967 an der New School for Social Research in New York.
