Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780823230754
0823230759
9780823230761
0823230767 - Physical Description
- x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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