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Argues that Hannah Arendt" 's reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action has been covered over and domesticated by admirers. This book explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics.

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Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining Arendt's contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century.

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Takes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. This book argues that we need to place more value on a form of conscientious, moderately alienated citizenship invented by Socrates. one that is critical in orientation and dissident in practice.

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Argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. This book examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; and the effects of mass media on the public arena.