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Arendt and
Individualism . ' BY GEORGE KATEB
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Of course, Arendt does not explicitly say what I have just said.
But I do not see what else could follow from what she does
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alone in the sense that one raises oneself above the world and
beholds it in its entirety. One experiences the shock of wonder
that there is a world at all. The shock of wonder is selfless,
impersonal; and just as it disregards self, so it escapes all
confinement in particulars and localities that concern the self.
Wonder also goes beyond receptivity to all particulars, and the
attempt to see each as it is.
In "Philosophy and Politics," Arendt says:
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Notes:
Bibliography:
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