The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt by Michael H. McCarthy - 9780739192870

The Political Humanism of Hannah ArendtAuthor(s): Michael H. McCarthy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739192870, 978-0739192870\nSynopsis\nAt the end of the Second World War when the horror of the holocaust became known, Hannah Arendt committed herself to a work of remembrance and reflection. Intellectual integrity demanded that we comprehend and articulate the genesis and meaning of totalitarian terror. What earlier spiritual and moral collapse had made totalitarian regimes possible? What was the basis of their evident mass appeal? To what cultural resources and political institutions and traditions could we turn to prevent their recurrence? After years of profound study, Arendt concluded that the deepest crisis of the modern world was political and that the enduring appeal of political mass movements demonstrated how profound that crisis had become.\n For Arendt the modern political crisis is also a cri.