Download or read book Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity written by Serena Parekh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines contemporary debates on the foundations of human rights through the lens of Arendt's writings, showing how Arendt’s phenomenological standpoint, unique within these debates, is able to shed new light a number of problems within human rights theory.