Our Sense of the Real: Aesthetic Experience and Arendtian Politics

Kimberley Curtis

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Our Sense of the Real

Aesthetic Experience and Arendtian Politics

Kimberley Curtis

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723636

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This bold and persuasive study rereads the works of Hannah Arendt to recuperate her relevance to contemporary politics and to show that her deepest concerns are oriented by her ontology. Kimberley Curtis interprets Arendt's earlier work through the...

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Kimberley Curtis is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Women's Studies at Duke University.

Reviews

J. Peter Euben, University of California, Santa Cruz:

These days it is hard to say something original, arresting, and responsible about the political thought of Hannah Arendt, but Kimberley Curtis has managed to do all three in clear yet passionate prose. This book is provocative as well as thoughtful, respectful (though not uncritical) of both Arendt's philosophical ambitions and political judgments. It manages to enact the political pleasures it finds and commends in Arendt's thought.

John McGowan, University of North Carolina:

Kimberley Curtis offers an original, powerful, and convincing rereading of Arendt. Curtis makes clear, in a way that no prior reader of Arendt has done, that the ontological and the ethical are completely intertwined, not just in Arendt's work but in all of our ways of being in the world.

In this excellent study, Curtis tries to reconcile the 'consensual-communicative' and 'agonistic-performative' interpretations of Arendt while exploring the ethical side of her theory. Curtis argues that our foremost moral duty, for Arendt, is to recognize and preserve 'plurality.'

Curtis's book is not easy reading, but the argument is fascinating and very much in the spirit of Arendt's thinking.

Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago:

Curtis is particularly good in her analysis of Arendt's writing on the relation between thinking and plurality; on the duality of the thinking self in its encounter both with itself and with the material world.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. On Gates and Oblivion: Ethical and Political Challenges in Late Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Aesthetic Provocation, Plurality, and Our Sense of the Real Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. World Alienation and the Modern Age: The Deprivations of Obscurity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. Beauty, Durability, and the Practice of Judging Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Ethical Responsibility in Politics: The Obligation to Renew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
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Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; History; Philosophy

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Published: October 18, 2018
ISBN: 9781501723636