Thinking in Dark Times : Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics / ed. by Jeffrey Katz, Roger Berkowitz, Thomas Keenan.
Abady, Shy, contributor.; Antaki, Mark, contributor.; Baehr, Peter, contributor.; Benhabib, Seyla, contributor.; Berkowitz, Roger, contributor.; Berkowitz, Roger, editor.; Bernstein, J. M., contributor.; Bernstein, Richard J, contributor.; Birmingham, Peg, contributor.; Botstein, Leon, contributor.; Caruth, Cathy, contributor.; Cornell, Drucilla, contributor.; Culbert, Jennifer L., contributor.; Ezrahi, Yaron, contributor.; Feldman, Ron H, contributor.; Hitchens, Christopher, contributor.; Kateb, George, contributor.; Katz, Jeffrey, editor.; Keenan, Thomas, editor.; Kohn, Jerome, contributor.; Laube, Reinhard, contributor.; Lavi, Shai, contributor.; Markell, Patchen, contributor.; Mehta, Uday, contributor.; Smith, Verity, contributor.; Vromen, Suzanne, contributor.; Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth, contributor.
2022
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Thinking in Dark Times : Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics / ed. by Jeffrey Katz, Roger Berkowitz, Thomas Keenan.
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9780823293377
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293377
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
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©2010
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (312 p.)
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10.1515/9780823293377 doi
Summary
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, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking. Indeed, she argues that the activity of thinking is the only reliable protection against the horrors that buffeted the last century. Its essays explore and enact that activity, which Arendt calls the habit of erecting obstacles to oversimplifications, compromises, and conventions. Most of the essays were written for a conference at Bard College celebrating the 100th anniversary of Arendt's birth. Arendt left her personal library and literary effects to Bard, and she is buried in the Bard College cemetery. Material from the Bard archive-such as a postcard to Arendt from Walter Benjamin or her annotation in her copy of Machiavelli's The Prince-and images from her life are interspersed with the essays in this volume. The volume will offer provocations and insights to Arendt scholars, students discovering Arendt's work, and general readers attracted to Arendt's vision of the importance of thinking in our own dark times.
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Abady, Shy, contributor.
Antaki, Mark, contributor.
Baehr, Peter, contributor.
Benhabib, Seyla, contributor.
Berkowitz, Roger, contributor.
Berkowitz, Roger, editor.
Bernstein, J. M., contributor.
Bernstein, Richard J, contributor.
Birmingham, Peg, contributor.
Botstein, Leon, contributor.
Caruth, Cathy, contributor.
Cornell, Drucilla, contributor.
Culbert, Jennifer L., contributor.
Ezrahi, Yaron, contributor.
Feldman, Ron H, contributor.
Hitchens, Christopher, contributor.
Kateb, George, contributor.
Katz, Jeffrey, editor.
Keenan, Thomas, editor.
Kohn, Jerome, contributor.
Laube, Reinhard, contributor.
Lavi, Shai, contributor.
Markell, Patchen, contributor.
Mehta, Uday, contributor.
Smith, Verity, contributor.
Vromen, Suzanne, contributor.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth, contributor.
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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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