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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- 1 A Public Philosopher: The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt -- I. Beginnings -- II. Philosophical Formation -- III. The Turn to the Political -- IV. "The Burden of Our Time -- V. Thinking What We Are Doing -- VI. The Eichmann Controversy -- VII. The Life of the Mind -- 2 The Problem of Evil Reconsidered -- I. Radical Evil -- II. The Banality of Evil -- III. The Ironies of Thinking without Bannisters -- IV. The Fearful Imagination -- 3 Amor Mundi: Worldliness, Love, and Citizenship -- I. The Human Condition of Worldliness -- II. Christian Worldlessness? Arendt's Assessment of the Christian Legacy -- III. Contending with Arendt on Worldliness and Love -- IV. Revisiting Arendt's Vision of Amor Mundi -- V. "This-Worldliness" -- 4 "That a Beginning Be Made": Natality, Action, and the Politics of Gratitude -- I. The Human Condition of Natality -- II. Pearl Diving in the City of God -- III. Arendt's Theory of Action -- IV. Pelagianism Redux? -- V. Political Freedom and the Limits of Action -- VI. The Grace of Natality -- 5 In the Region of the Spirit: Thinking Between Past and Future -- I. "The Spark of Fire Between Two Flint Stones" -- II. The Activity of Thinking -- III. The Virtue of Thinking -- IV. The Location of Thinking -- V. Theology Between Past and Future. |
| Summary |
Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Famous for her account of the banality of evil, her wide-ranging work explored such themes as totalitarianism, the Holocaust, statelessness and human rights, revolutions and democratic movements, and the various challenges of modern technological society. Recent years have seen a growing appreciation of her complex relationship to theological sources, especially Augustine, the subject of her doctoral dissertation and a thinker with whom she contended throughout her life. This book explores how Arendt's critical and constructive engagements with theology inform her broader thought, as well as the lively debates her work is stirring in contemporary Christian theology on such topics as evil, tradition, love, political action, and the life of the mind. A unique interdisciplinary investigation bridging Arendt studies, political philosophy, and Christian theology, Hannah Arendt and Theology considers how the insights and provocations of this public intellectual can help set a constructive theological agenda for the twenty-first century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. |
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Philosophical theology.
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Philosophical theology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kiess, John. Hannah Arendt and theology 9780567450937 (DLC) 2015024317 (OCoLC)923017438 |
| ISBN |
9780567666536 (electronic book) |
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0567666530 (electronic book) |
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9780567450937 |
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0567450937 |
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9780567222275 |
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0567222276 |
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