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Article: Against the sovereignty of philosophy over politics: Arendt's reading of Plato's cave allegory.(Hannah Arendt)(Critical essay)
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- December 22, 2007
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HANNAH ARENDT IS CELEBRATED AS ONE OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS of our time. But is such a celebration truly legitimate? Indeed, as surprising and as paradoxical as it may seem, Hannah Arendt has always demonstrated a strong opposition to political philosophy and to its tradition of thought. Despite almost unanimous recognition of Arendt, the idiom "political philosophy"--and the institutions that are born of it--are highly problematic. For the author of The Human Condition, under the guise of a supposedly happy alliance between the substantive and the qualifier, "political philosophy" willingly conceals a conflict between philosophy and politics and bears the threat of the ...
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