Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political ThoughtArendt’s penetrating analysis of the complex crises of meaning in modern society and political philosophy is presented with her impassioned exercises for guiding readers toward the reinvigoration of the concepts of justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. |
Contents
The Gap between Past and Future | 3 |
Tradition and the Modern Age | 17 |
The Concept of History ANCIENT AND MODERN | 41 |
What Is Authority? | 91 |
What Is Freedom? | 143 |
The Crisis in Education | 173 |
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