The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt : Augustine and the Invention of Modernity - Michael Weinman

The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt

Augustine and the Invention of Modernity

By: Michael Weinman

Hardcover | 30 April 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


$333.50

or 4 interest-free payments of $83.38 with

 or 

Available: 30th April 2025

Preorder. Will ship when available.

The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt clarifies how to understand Arendt's arguments about freedom, collective action, and the problem of evil as political theological, rather than political theoretical or philosophical. To achieve this, Weinman offers a comparative reading of Arendt's engagement with Augustine, from her 1929 dissertation through to The Life of the Mind, which she was working on when she died in 1975. Weinman's innovation is to not only read both works together, but to also read them in light of Arendt's discussion of Augustine in key passages taken from all her works written in the decades between them. Arendt's attempt to reconcile liberal commitments with the Augustinian tradition makes clear why Arendt-and not Carl Schmitt-ought to be read as offering the preeminent response to Max Weber's theory of modernity as inescapably secular, the result of irreversible processes of disenchantment.

More in Political Science & Theory

War - Bob Woodward

Hardcover

RRP $55.00

$39.90

27%
OFF
Pedagogy of the Oppressed : PMC - Paulo Freire

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
The Republic : Penguin Classics - Plato

BLACK FRIDAY

RRP $17.99

$10.80

40%
OFF
Filming the First : Cinematic Portrayals of Freedom of the Press - Helen J. Knowles
The Road to Freedom : Economics and the Good Society - Joseph Stiglitz
The Adam Smith Review : Volume 14 - Fonna Forman

RRP $284.00

$200.95

29%
OFF
The Prince : The Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith - Niccolo Machiavelli
On Western Terrorism : From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare - Noam Chomsky

BLACK FRIDAY

My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$31.75

Mao's Last Dancer : Young Readers Edition - Li Cunxin

BLACK FRIDAY

RRP $19.99

$15.95

20%
OFF
The Tyranny of Merit : What's Become of the Common Good? - Michael J. Sandel