The philosopher versus the citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates

Political Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-168

  Villa, Dana R ^a  

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EID: 0347761530     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591798026002001     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. John Gunnell, Political Theory: Tradition and Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, 1979).
2. See Hannah Arendt, "Preface" and "Tradition and the Modern Age," Between Past and Future (New York: Penguin, 1968); and Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 1-3, and Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 3-6.
3. See Hannah Arendt, "Preface" and "Tradition and the Modern Age," Between Past and Future (New York: Penguin, 1968); and Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 1-3, and Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 3-6.
4. See Hannah Arendt, "Preface" and "Tradition and the Modern Age," Between Past and Future (New York: Penguin, 1968); and Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 1-3, and Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 3-6.
5. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968), 201-206; Strauss, The City and Man, 9.
6. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968), 201-206; Strauss, The City and Man, 9.
7. Karl Lowith and Leo Strauss, "Correspondence Concerning Modernity," Independent Journal of Philosophy 4 (1983): 107-108, 113. See also Leo Strauss, Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 19-20, 24.
8. Karl Lowith and Leo Strauss, "Correspondence Concerning Modernity," Independent Journal of Philosophy 4 (1983): 107-108, 113. See also Leo Strauss, Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 19-20, 24.
9. See Dana Villa, "Socrates, Lessing and Thoreau: The Image of Alienated Citizenship in Hannah Arendt," in Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality, ed. Austin Sarat and Dana Villa (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
10. Margaret Canovan, Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 257.
11. Much has been written about how Arendt gets the nature of the polis wrong, anachronistically positing a rigid divide between the realm of freedom (the public space of the assembly) and that of necessity (the household); see, for example, Bernard Yack, The Problems of a Political Animal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 11-13. I think such objections presume what they need to show; that is, that Arendt's "ideal type" was intended as a historical representation.
12. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Penguin, 1962), 31.
13. Arendt, Between Past and Future, 51-52.
14. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 26-27.
15. Hannah Arendt, "Philosophy and Politics," Social Research 57, no. 1 (1990): 80.
16. Arendt, Human Condition, 57.
17. Arendt, "Philosophy," 81.
18. Ibid., 82.
19. Ibid., 84.
20. Ibid., 85.
21. Ibid., 86.