The crisis of judgement: Arendt and the tradition of the social contract
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on September 13, 2025
Abstract
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This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s critique of classical social contract theory through her analysis of the twentieth-century crisis of personal judgement. Whereas scholarship often attributes the crisis of judgement to the collapse of traditional ...
This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s critique of classical social contract theory through her analysis of the twentieth-century crisis of personal judgement. Whereas scholarship often attributes the crisis of judgement to the collapse of traditional ...