Jennifer Gaffney

Political Loneliness

Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation and the conditions for communal life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781786606945
• ISBN-10: 1786606941
• Artikelnr.: 58702095

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Gaffney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Philosophical Problem of Loneliness
1. Being-with and Being Lonely: Heidegger on the They-Self
2. Plurality, Singularity, Relationality: Reclaiming Community in the Modern World
3. Political Loneliness: Arendt on the Hiddenness of Neoliberal Subjects
4. Organized Loneliness: Another Origin of Totalitarianism
5. Totalitarianism Then and Now: The Birth of Neoliberalism
6. Political Loneliness Today: America's Hidden Trump Supporter
Conclusion: From Political Loneliness to a Politics of Appearance
Bibliography
Index