Hannah Arendt is one of the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. Margaret Canovan argues that much of the published work on Arendt has been flawed by serious misunderstandings, arising from a failure to see her work in its proper context. This reinterpretation[...]
This study of contemporary intellectual attitudes towards nationalism shows how current discourses of democracy, social justice and liberalism take for granted the existence of features of the nation state which these discourses themselves do not acknowledge explicitly.[...]