Abstract
Arendt’s provocative thesis that the dominant tradition of political philosophy has failed to and is inherently unable to give a satistactory account of political life raises several obvious questions of which we shall discuss two in some detail. First, how did the tradition originate and develop hostility to politics? And second, how does she account for the ‘fact’ that it has continued for over two thousand years without any of its major figures discovering its inadequacy and undertaking its radical reappraisal?
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© 1981 Bhikhu Parekh
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Parekh, B. (1981). Origin and Development of the Tradition of Political Philosophy. In: Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05747-4_2
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