{"product_id":"the-promise-of-politics-isbn-9780805212136","title":"The Promise of Politics","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Politics, \u003c\/i\u003eHannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics.  In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action.  The concluding section of the book, “Introduction \u003ci\u003einto\u003c\/i\u003e Politics,” examines an issue that is as timely today as it was when Arendt first wrote about it fifty years ago–the modern prejudice against politics.  When politics is considered as a means to an end that lies outside of itself, argues Arendt, when force is used to create “freedom,” the very existence of political principles is imperiled.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003eby Jerome Kohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Socrates\u003cbr\u003eThe Tradition of Political Thought\u003cbr\u003e Montesquieu’s Revision of the Tradition\u003cbr\u003e From Hegel to Marx \u003cbr\u003e The End of Tradition\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003ci\u003e into \u003c\/i\u003ePolitics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEpilogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e\"A brilliantly erudite and imaginative book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By insisting that politics remain a promise rather than a threat, Arendt offers a hope that history has yet to justify.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Arendt demonstrated, brilliantly, how our habitual view of politics as an instrument in the service of private liberty, material gain, and social prosperity actually increases the dangers posed by the modern world.”\u003cbr\u003e–Dana R. Villa, author of \u003ci\u003eArendt and Heidegger \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Socratic Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research. Arendt died in 1975.Edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303861309669,"sku":"NP9780805212136","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780805212136.jpg?v=1767741096","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-promise-of-politics-isbn-9780805212136","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}