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Discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

  • UPSC 2003
  • 60 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a German-Jewish émigré stateless from 1937 to 1951, called herself a political theorist, not a philosopher, because philosophy since Plato addressed Man in the singular. One thread runs through her work: plurality, the fact that men, not Man, live on the earth. Each major work defends it against a force that destroys…

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  • Totalitarianism: Politics Destroyed
  • The Vita Activa
  • Power, Revolution and Authority
  • Evil and Judgement
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