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La Politique a-t-elle encore un sens ?

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La désaffection pour la " chose publique ", la relative déconsidération qui frappe les hommes politiques donnent à ce texte un relief tout à fait particulier. C'est la question du sens de la politique qui est ici envisagée, de sa justification. Il ne suffit pas de se convaincre que la politique est une nécessité impérieuse pour la vie humaine, il faut encore pouvoir maintenir dans nos sociétés contemporaines la possibilité d'un espace pour la délibération. " La question aujourd'hui ne s'énonce pas tellement en ces termes : quel est le sens de la politique ? Au sentiment des peuples qui, un peu partout, se sentent menacés par la politique et parmi lesquels les meilleurs ont consciemment pris leur distance par rapport à la politique, on comprend que corresponde mieux la question qu'ils se posent et que d'autres se posent : la politique a-t-elle encore un sens ?" H. A.

102 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2007

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Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

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J'ai beaucoup de mal avec ces éditions qui sont souvent des recueils de textes (et qui coûtent cher pour des petits livres)
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