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dc.contributor.authorKEEDUS, Liisi
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-10T13:26:27Z
dc.date.available2010-09-10T13:26:27Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2010en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/14485
dc.descriptionDefence date: 28 January 2010en
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. Martin Van Gelderen, Supervisor, European University Institute; Prof. Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Prof. Raymond Geuss, Cambridge University; Prof. Bo Stråth, Helsinki Universityen
dc.descriptionPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD thesesen
dc.description.abstractIt is my contention that a historically and thus philosophically accurate understanding of Arendt’s and Strauss’s projects cannot be gained without knowledge of the debates and controversies that shaped their early thought. I will also argue that it is insufficient to limit such a reconstruction to a single or few contemporary figures of influence, or even more so, to their engagement with the canon of philosophy or the 'problem of modernity'. Instead, Arendt’s and Strauss’s intellectual and political maturation took place in the broader context of a variety of overlapping contemporary conceptual fields, conventions and concerns. By reconstructing the unfolding of Arendt’s and Strauss’s scholarly and political outlook against the background of these discursive contexts, I hope to show that what are often understood as their critiques of modernity - and confronted as such, in this general sense, or used as a source of inspiration - emerged from their engagement with these particular disputes. Alongide the ways in which the conventions and concerns of their time influenced their philosophical and political sensibilities, I will also spell out their early critiques of these conventions, intellectual or political.They did not only intellectually inherit certain disciplinary traditions of discussion, but also sought to overcome what they deemed had led these astray.en
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
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dc.subject.lcshArendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views
dc.subject.lcshArendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Contributions in political science
dc.subject.lcshStrauss, Leo, -- Political and social views
dc.subject.lcshStrauss, Leo, -- Contributions in political science
dc.titleOmitted encounters : the early political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Straussen
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