Political geographies in a global world: Arendtian reflections *.

Social Research | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

FOR Hannah Arendt, one of the principal concerns of political philosophy was to "think the new" in human affairs. As the art of making distinctions, thinking had to bring to bear upon political phenomena categories that would enable one to grasp the novelty of what had transpired, but without losing a sense of the past. The history of philosophy, therefore, should not be treated as a source of eternal dogma, but as the repository of distinctions, categories, and arguments that would still orient one in the present. Arendt, as is well known, named this the "activity of the ...

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