Arendt's judgement: freedom, responsibility, citizenship

In 'Arendt's Judgment', Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject of the planned third volume of Hannah Arendt's 'The Life of the Mind', which was left unwritten at the time of her death.

Arguing that previous interpretations of Arendt failed to fully appreciate the central place of judgment in her thought, Schwartz contends that understanding Arendt's ideas requires not only interpreting her published work but also reconstructing her thinking from a broader range of sources, including her various essays, lecture course notes, unpublished material, and correspondence.

When these sources are taken into account, it becomes clear that, for Arendt, political judgment was the answer to the question of how human freedom could be realised in the modern world.