Thinking in Dark Times : : Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics /

Thinking in Dark Times : : Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics / / ed. by Jeffrey Katz, Roger Berkowitz, Thomas Keenan.

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Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century. In her works, she grappled with the dark events of that century, probing the nature of power, authority, and evil, and seeking to confront totalitarian horrors on their own terms. This book focuses on how, again...

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MitwirkendeR:
Abady, Shy,
Antaki, Mark,
Baehr, Peter,
Benhabib, Seyla,
Berkowitz, Roger,
Bernstein, J. M.,
Bernstein, Richard J,
Birmingham, Peg,
Botstein, Leon,
Caruth, Cathy,
Cornell, Drucilla,
Culbert, Jennifer L.,
Ezrahi, Yaron,
Feldman, Ron H,
Hitchens, Christopher,
Kateb, George,
Kohn, Jerome,
Laube, Reinhard,
Lavi, Shai,
Markell, Patchen,
Mehta, Uday,
Smith, Verity,
Vromen, Suzanne,
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Berkowitz, Roger,
Katz, Jeffrey,
Keenan, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Editors’ Note
  • Introduction: Thinking in Dark Times
  • Part I. Politics
  • Reflections on Antisemitism
  • Fiction as Poison
  • A Discriminating Politics
  • Hannah Arendt’s Political Engagements
  • What Does It Mean to Think About Politics?
  • Part II. Lying and Politics
  • A Lying World Order: Political Deception and the Threat of Totalitarianism
  • Lying and History
  • Part III.Citizenship
  • The Experience of Action
  • Dissent in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Civil Disobedience and Constitutional Patriotism
  • Promising and Civil Disobedience: Arendt’s Political Modernism
  • Part IV. Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Is Evil Banal? A Misleading Question
  • Banality and Cleverness: Eichmann in Jerusalem Revisited
  • Judging the Events of Our Time
  • Arendt’s Banality of Evil Thesis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Part V. Judaism and Cosmopolitanism
  • Liberating the Pariah: Politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt
  • Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Experience: Thinking, Acting, Judging
  • The Pariah as Rebel: Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Writings
  • Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Identity
  • Jewish to the Core
  • Part VI. Thinking in Dark Times
  • Thinking Big in Dark Times
  • Crimes of Action, Crimes of Thought: Arendt on Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Judgment
  • Solitude and the Activity of Thinking
  • Part VII. Sites of Memory
  • Exile Readings: Hannah Arendt’s Library
  • Remembering Hannah: An Interview with Jack Blum
  • My Hannah Arendt Project
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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