Title: Politics and freedom :
Authors: Tlaba, Gabriel Masooane,
Date: 1987
Publisher: University Press of America,
Physical description: xvi, 205 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: I. Freedom and action -- natality -- motives and goals -- on homo faber and animal laborans -- principled action -- plurality -- the disclosure of the actor -- appearance -- II. Freedom and politics -- the pre-philosophic Greek polis -- the Roman foundation of order -- revolution -- freedom as participation -- councils -- III. Non-political issues and the public sphere -- labor and work -- socio-economic factors -- force and violence -- liberation or freedom? -- critique -- IV. Totalitarianism -- totalitarian organization -- ideology and terror -- concentration camps -- totalitarianism and modernity -- critics -- V. Philosophical freedom -- inner freedom -- thinking -- willing -- the faculty of judgment -- freedom and necessity -- VI. Continuity in Arendt's thought -- apparent shift in Arendt's thought -- continuity in Arendt's notion of freedom ; appearing before others ; the connection between the role of intellect and the role of public ; seventeenth and eighteenth century view of freedom as pre-political -- general problems with Arendt's analysis.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Contributions in liberty.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Contributions in political science.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Views on liberty.