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1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 299 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking in dark times / Roger Berkowitz -- Politics -- Reflections on antisemitism / Christopher Hitchens -- Fiction as poison / George Kateb -- A discriminating politics / Uday Mehta -- Hannah Arendt's political engagements / Seyla Benhabib -- What does it mean to think about politics? / Mark Antaki -- Lying and politics -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- Citizenship -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. Bernstein -- Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Is evil banal? : a misleading question / Richard J. Bernstein -- Banality and cleverness : Eichmann in Jerusalem revisited / Peter Baehr -- Judging the events of our time / Jennifer L. Culbert -- Arendt's banality of evil thesis and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Yaron Ezrahi -- Judaism and cosmopolitanism -- Liberating the pariah : politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt / Leon Botstein -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish experience : thinking, acting, judging / Jerome Kohn -- The pariah as rebel : Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings / Ron H. Feldman -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Jewish to the core / Suzanne Vromen -- Thinking in dark times -- Thinking big in dark times / Drucilla Cornell -- Crimes of action, crimes of thought : Arendt on reconciliation, forgiveness, and judgment / Shai Lavi -- Solitude and the activity of thinking / Roger Berkowitz -- Sites of memory -- Exile readings : Hannah Arendt's library / Reinhard Laube -- Remembering Hannah : an interview with Jack Blum / Roger Berkowitz -- My Hannah Arendt project / Shy Abady. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views.
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Political ethics.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Berkowitz, Roger, 1968-
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Katz, Jeffrey.
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Keenan, Thomas, 1959-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780823230754 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0823230759 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780823230761 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0823230767 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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