edited by Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan.
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2010.
1 online resource (299 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Editor's Note -- Thinking in Dark Times -- Politics -- Reflections on Antisemitism -- Fiction as Poison -- A Discriminating Politics -- Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements -- What Does It Mean to Think About Politics? -- Lying and Politics -- A Lying World Order -- Lying and History -- Citizenship -- The Experience of Action -- Dissent in Dark Times -- Promising and Civil Disobedience -- Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Is Evil Banal? A Misleading Question -- Banality and Cleverness
Judging the Events of Our Time Arendt's Banality of Evil Thesis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict -- Judaism and Cosmopolitanism -- Liberating the Pariah -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience -- The Pariah as Rebel -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish Identity -- Jewish to the Core -- Thinking in Dark Times -- Thinking Big in Dark Times -- Crimes of Action, Crimes of Thought -- Solitude and the Activity of Thinking -- Sites of Memory -- Exile Readings -- Remembering Hannah -- My Hannah Arendt Project -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
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Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century. This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking.
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Thinking in dark times.
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