Politics as Radical Creation

For a critical examination of the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, consider reading Politics as Radical Creation:  Herbert Marcuse & Hannah Arendt on Political Performativity.  

The author, Christopher Holman, is an assistant professor in the Public Policy and Global Affairs Program at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

"As a consequence of Arendt's misreading of the work of the Frankfurt School, and indeed of a certain tradition of critical Marxism more generally, two of the most important theoretical tendencies of the twentieth century have not made the effort to seriously engage with one another.  This book thus aims at something of a rapprochement between these two traditions, demonstrating the degree to which not only Critical Theorists and Arendtians might find a common ground, but perhaps even more importantly, the degree to which this juxtaposition might allow for the emergence of not only a unique understanding of the meaning of democracy or acting politically, but indeed of being human."--From the book's introduction

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