'Personally, I find it ridiculous that Eilenberger gives this sophomoric pseudo-Nietzschean space in a book devoted mostly to much more subtle women. Her endless blethering in the imperative mood like Jordan Peterson on a bad day, about will, selfishness, the worthlessness of altruism and the moral foundation of capitalism, is very hard to take. And yet, I suppose, it is important to realise that Rand, though the feeblest of the thinkers here, was the most successful: as of 2020 her terrible novels had sold 37m copies, and her thoughts have underpinned the barbarous project of neoliberalism, inspiring former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the Republican Tea party and, arguably, Trump’s low-tax and anti-regulation policies. Former British cabinet minister Sajid Javid, he of the “Tory power stance”, is a fan.'
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The Origin of the Political: Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil.
Esposito examines the foundational relation between war and the political.