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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader
List of Abbreviations
Introduction The Problem of Action in Arendt
Part I: Arendt’s Theory of Political Action
Chapter 1 Arendt, Aristotle, and Action
I. Aristotle and Arendt on the Self-Containedness of Action
II. Applying the Criterion: Arendt’s Descriptions of Labor, Work, and Action
III. The Idea of a “Self-Contained” Politics
Chapter 2 Thinking Action against the Tradition
I. Teleology versus Self-Containedness
II. The Antipolitical Quality of Aristotelian Praxis
III. Autonomous Action: Politics as Performing Art
IV. Arendt’s Critique of the Modern Turn to Will and History
V. Conclusion: Beyond Aristotle and Kant
Chapter 3 Arendt, Nietzsche, and the “Aestheticization” of Political Action
I. Introduction
II. Nonsovereignty and the Performance Model: Arendt’s Anti-Platonism
III. The Disclosive Nature of “Aestheticized” Action
IV. Limiting the Agon: Difference and Plurality, Perspectivism and Judgment
Part II: Arendt and Heidegger
Chapter 4 The Heideggerian Roots of Arendt’s Political Theory
I. Introduction: The Ontological-Political Stakes of Arendt’s Theory of Action
II. The Abyss of Freedom and Dasein’s Disclosedness: Thinking Freedom in Its Worldliness and Contingency
III. Heidegger’s Distinction between Authentic and Inauthentic Disclosedness and Arendt’s Appropriation
Chapter 5 Groundless Action, Groundless Judgment: Politics after Metaphysics
I. The Second Level of Appropriation: The Dialectic of Transcendence/Everydayness and Arendt’s Ontology of the Public World
II. Being as Appearing: Post-Nietzschean Ontology and the Evanescence of the Political
III. The Problem of Groundless Action and Judgment
IV. The Tradition as Reification: Productionist Metaphysics and the Withdrawal of the Political
Chapter 6 The Critique of Modernity
I. Introduction: Arendt and Heidegger as Critics of Modernity
II. Heidegger: The Metaphysics of the Moderns and the Subjectification of the Real
Self-Assertion as Self-Grounding: The “Inauthenticity” of Modernity
The Will to Will and the Conquest of the World as Picture
Technology as a Mode of Revealing: The “Brink of a Precipitous Fall”
III. Arendt on Modernity: World Alienation and the Withdrawal of the Political
Modern World Alienation and the Subjectification of the Real
From Homo Faber to the Animal Laborans: Instrumentality, Technology, and the “Destruction of the Common World”
IV. A “Rejectionist Critique”? Thinking the Present from an Arendtian Perspective
Part III: The Critique of Heidegger’s Philosophical Politics
Chapter 7 Arendt, Heidegger, and the Oblivion of Praxis
I. Introduction
II. Heidegger’s Concept of the Political
The Devaluation of Communicative Action and the Public Sphere in Being and Time
The Poetic Model of Disclosure in the Work of the Thirties
The “Oblivion of Praxis” in Heidegger’s Later Work
III. Arendt’s Heidegger Critique: The Unworldliness of the Philosopher
Chapter 8 Heidegger, Poiēsis, and Politics
I. The Ambiguity of Heidegger’s Contribution to the Oblivion of Praxis
II. Politics as Plastic Art: The Productionist Paradigm and the Problem of Heidegger’s Aestheticism
III. Art, Technology, and Totalitarianism
IV. Questions Concerning Technology—and the Rethinking of Action
V. Heidegger, Arendt, and the Question of “Faith” in Human Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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