Robaszkiewicz

Hannah Arendt has been classified as a critical theorist, a phenomenologist, an anti-feminist, a feminist ally, a democratic theorist, a republican theorist, a Heidegerrian, and a nostalgic Hellenophile. This book responds to these perspectives in two ways. First, we recognize that one can legitimately derive all these positionings from one or another of her writings; second, we insist nevertheless and precisely because all these approaches play some role in her work that her readers ought to follow her own claim that she ’does not belong to any club’. Instead, we introduce her works as exercises in political thinking, treating her as a dialogue partner, whose judgments and opinions remain open for reflection and discussion.

Maria Robaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Paderborn University. She is the author of Übungen im politischen Denken: Hannah Arendts Schriften als Anleitung der politischen Praxis (Springer, 2017) and the editor, with Tobias Matzner, of Hannah Arendt. Challenges of Plurality (Springer, 2021). Robaszkiewicz publishes widely in social and political philosophy and feminist theory and is a member of the editorial board of HannahArendt.net.

Bard College Berlin

Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books; most recently, The Emergence of Illiberalism (Routledge, 2020) with Boris Vormann, and The Parthenon and Liberal Education (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2018) with Geoff Lehman. His other books and many chapters and articles focus on ancient Greek thought and its contemporary reception, alongside issues in contemporary political philosophy.