This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt’s performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action’s disclosure of the unique ‘who’ of each agent.
Trevor Tchir is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Algoma University,Canada.
Chapter One - Introduction.- Chapter Two - Action’s Disclosure of the ‘Who’ and the ‘World’.- Chapter Three - Appearances of the Divine ‘Daimon’.- Chapter Four - Aletheia: The Influence of Heidegger.- Chapter Five - Labor and ‘World Alienation’: Arendt’s Critique of Marx.- Chapter Six - The Dignity of Doxa: Politicizing Kant’s Aesthetic Judgment.- Chapter Seven - Forgotten Fragments: Arendt’s Critique of Teleological Philosophies of History.- Chapter Eight - Conclusion.