Tag: Walt Whitman

  • Touchstone Terms: Arendt’s Metaphysical Deflation

    Touchstone Terms: Arendt’s Metaphysical Deflation

    This post is a part of a series on some ideas that I find particularly useful or interesting. It also extends the postĀ from last week of metaphysical deflation in Nietzsche. Here, I begin an account of Arendt’s metaphysical deflation, and its intimate connection to a kind of skepticism about personal identity. Though Hannah Arendt began…