Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy A People's Utopia
This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought: her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils would replace contemporary representative democracy and allow citizens t
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Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy
Shmuel Lederman
Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy A People’s Utopia
Shmuel Lederman The Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education The University of Haifa Haifa, Israel
ISBN 978-3-030-11691-0 ISBN 978-3-030-11692-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11692-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019931751 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
For Yifat, who opened my heart.
Preface and Acknowledgements
This book is a product of over a decade of studying Hannah Arendt’s political thought. In a sense, it is my doctoral dissertation revised. I would like to hope, however, that in the seven years that passed since I finished my dissertation my understanding of this complex political thinker has somewhat improved, in large part due to the many excellent studies on Arendt which have come out in recent years, in what seems to be an ever-growing scholarly literature on Arendt. Perhaps surprisingly for a thinker about whom so much has been written, I feel there is much that remains to be explored in Arendt. More specifically, I suggest in this study what amounts to a reinterpretation of some major themes in Arendt’s political thought, as I examine her writings through a lens few have taken seriously before as an essential part of her political thought: her commitment to participatory democracy in the form of a citizen council system. I have attempted to demonstrate the fruitfulness of this approach in various articles I have published on different topics in Arendt, all in one form or another connected to her suppor
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