I have a new essay on Arendt and Michael Denneny in the Hedgehog Review: https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/translation-and-taste
Blake Smith with a typically lucid and erudite explication of tradition of thought, grounded in aesthetics but stretching through judgment, and so politics and ultimately our sense of the human. On a personal note, the late Arendt lectures that Blake discusses have influenced me ever since I read them in law school, when I was thinking about politics vis a vis aesthetics (or maybe the other way 'round). Deeply important, imao, and highly recommended.
Blake Smith with a typically lucid and erudite explication of tradition of thought, grounded in aesthetics but stretching through judgment, and so politics and ultimately our sense of the human. On a personal note, the late Arendt lectures that Blake discusses have influenced me ever since I read them in law school, when I was thinking about politics vis a vis aesthetics (or maybe the other way 'round). Deeply important, imao, and highly recommended.