{"product_id":"a-promessa-da-politica","title":"The promise of politics","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Promise of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e brings together previously unpublished texts by political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe book, which draws on two projects the author began in the 1950s, a period in which she devoted herself to researching Marxism, is divided into six parts: \"Socrates,\" \"The Tradition of Political Thought,\" \"The Revision of Tradition in Montstesquieu,\" \"From Hegel to Marx,\" \"The End of Tradition,\" and \"Introduction to Politics.\" It is a critical examination of all Western political thought, showing how Arendt understands this tradition's failure to explain human action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"The Promise of Politics invites readers to join Arendt and her favorite companions on a journey spanning many lands and centuries,\" says organizer Jerome Kohn, who was the author's assistant and is now director of the Hannah Arendt Library. \"During the journey, many readers may encounter judgments with which they disagree, but they will certainly find much that speaks to their own country and time. (...) I hope that this volume of Arendt's writings will encourage readers to take her as seriously as she takes them, for ultimately her need to understand for herself cannot be separated from our need to think and judge for ourselves. Her students are witnesses that she welcomed the thoughtful disagreements with her judgments as signs of a more general agreement to renew the promise that beats at the heart of political life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFor Dana Villa, author of \u003cem\u003eArendt and Heidegger and Socratic Citizenship\u003c\/em\u003e , \"The essays and texts collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Promise of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e illuminate the connections between Hannah Arendt's two great works, \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/em\u003e . Her explorations of the tradition of Western political philosophy—from its beginnings in Socrates and Plato to its conclusion in Marx—reveal the depth of that tradition's anti-political prejudices, its persistent identification of freedom with some purpose or end beyond self-government and public liberty. Arendt brilliantly demonstrates how our habitual view of politics as an instrument in the service of private liberty, material gain, and social prosperity actually magnifies the dangers posed by the modern world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAccording to Hannah Arendt, politics has no \"end.\" Instead, it was, at certain moments—and perhaps can be again—the endless attempt of the great plurality of human beings to live together and share the Earth in mutually guaranteed freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Written fifty years ago, Hannah Arendt's words and ideas in \u003cem\u003eThe Promise of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e are still considered pertinent and relevant from a cultural, social and political point of view.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174928204028,"sku":"9788574320861","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8da1949263a3da357c08a5d7be9cf492.jpg?v=1778323711","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/a-promessa-da-politica","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}