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Love and Saint Augustine
Hannah Arendt
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Description for Love and Saint Augustine
paperback. This is a revised and corrected English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts and other documents. It demonstrates how her early work on Augustine provides the key to her later critique of modernity. Editor(s): Scott, Joanna Vecchiarelli (Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University, USA); Stark, Judith Chelius (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hall University, USA). Num Pages: 254 pages, notes. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRC; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her most influential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts ... Read more
Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her most influential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226025971
SKU
9780226025971
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