Hannah Arendt’s Aesthetic Politics

We face a crisis of public reason. Our quest for a politics that is free, moral and rational has, somehow, made it hard for us to  move , to change our positions, to visit places and perspectives that are not our own, and to embrace reality. This book addresses this crisis with a model of public reason based in a new aesthetic reading of Hannah Arendt’s political theory. It begins by telling the story of Arendt’s engagement with the Augenblicke  of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Jaspers,