Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt

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This collection of essays by established scholars explores the juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of Hannah Arendt.

Phillip Hansen is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Regina, Canada. He is the author of Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship (1993), Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory (2003) and, with Harold Chorney, Toward a Humanist Political Economy (2003). He has published articles in Contemporary Political Theory; Studies in Political Economy; and The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory at the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She has published on issues of reconciliation, collective trauma, community and testimony.

"The essays assembled in this book subtly explore the phenomenological basis of Hannah Arendt's thought, demonstrating how concepts such as appearance, disclosure, world and individuation underlie her understanding of thinking and acting. In revealing both the richness of her political thought and the tensions inherent to it, these essays show why Arendt remains indispensable to 'think what we are doing' today." - Dr. Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter.