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Description:: Abstract The relationship between truth and politics is an ancient and venerable problem in political philosophy. But just as the traditional subordination of politics to philosophy has obscured central categories and experiences of politics (like action and freedom), it has also obscured the distinctive problem of truth in politics, or...
Keyword:: Truth, Earth, Arendt, Lying, Authority, and Science
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Neame, Alexandra Catherine
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_627550 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14478

Description:: Thinkers attempting to challenge existing conceptions of political life often find that they encounter limitations in dominant modes of spectatorship and communication. If popular audiences are unsuitably oriented toward the presentation of certain content, this introduces a fundamental obstacle for political theoretic efforts to shape ideas and interactions. This dissertation...
Keyword:: Machiavelli, Arendt, Rhetoric, History of Political Thought, Rousseau, and Democratic Theory
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Litvin, Boris
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14619 and etdadmin_upload_661977

Description:: Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...
Keyword:: Lyotard, Arendt, Kant, Evil, Judgment, and Action
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Javier Burdman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/18/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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