Dana Villa: 3 books
Arendt and Heidegger
The Fate of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1995
Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists,...
Teachers of the People
Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising that observers on the left and right have called...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...