On Lying And Politics

On Lying And Politics

Arendt, Hannah

Editorial Library Of America
Fecha de edición septiembre 2022 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9781598537314
120 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 120 mm x 190 mm


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Resumen del libro

More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich

"No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?

Fifty years ago, the century's greatest political theorist turned her focus to these essential questions in two seminal essays, brought together here for the first time. Her conclusions, delivered in searching prose that crackles with insight and intelligence, remain powerfully relevant, perhaps more so today than when they were written.

In "Truth and Politics," Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed citizenry. She shows how our shared sense of reality--the texture of facts in which we wrap our daily lives--can be torn apart by organized lying, replaced with a fantasy world of airbrushed evidence and doctored documents.

In "Lying in Politics," written in response to the release of the Pentagon Papers, Arendt applies these insights to an analysis of American policy in Southeast Asia, arguing that the real goal of the Vietnam War--and of the official lies used to justify it by successive administrations--was nothing other than the burnishing of America's image.

In his introduction, David Bromwich (American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us) engages with Arendt's essays in the context of her other writings and underscores their clarion call to take seriously the ever-present threat to democracy posed by lying.

Biografía del autor

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) es una de las pensadoras más influyentes del siglo XX. Nacida en Hannover y de origen judío, estudió en Marburgo, Friburgo y Heidelberg, donde se graduó en Filosofía. Emigró a París tras el ascenso del nazismo y en 1941, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, se marchó a vivir a Estados Unidos, donde llegó a ser catedrática en la Universidad de Chicago, y ejerció asimismo en Berkeley, Columbia y Princeton. Suyas son algunas de las obras capitales de la teoría y la filosofía política contemporánea, como Los orígenes del totalitarismo (1951), La condición humana (1958), Sobre la revolución (1963), Eichmann en Jerusalén. Un estudio sobre la banalidad del mal (1963) o La vida del espíritu , su último trabajo, que quedó inacabado y se publicó póstumamente.





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