The Origin of the Political – Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil? Esposito Binetti

The Origin of the PoliticalHannah Arendt or Simone Weil?\nAuthor(s): Roberto Esposito, Vincenzo Binetti, Gareth Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823276271, 978-0823276271\nSynopsis\nIn this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century's most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer's Iliadthat \""great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others\"" as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western philosophical and political traditions, Esposito examines the foundational relation between war and the political.\n Drawing actively and extensively on Arendt's and Weil's voluminous writings, but also sparring with thinkers from Marx to Heidegger, The Origin of the Political traverses the relation between polemos and polis.