Hannah Arendt & Human Rights: The Predicament of Common ResponsibilityHannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well known and often cited notion of the right to have rights. In this incisive and wide ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more