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Arendt, Hannah - hänˈä ärˈənt, 1906–75, German-American political theorist, b. Hanover, Germany, B.A. Königsberg, 1924, Ph.D. Heidelberg, 1928. She emigrated (1941) to the United States and was naturalized in 1950. Arendt was a lecturer and Guggenheim fellow, 1952–53; visiting professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1955; the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton, 1959; and visiting professor of government at Columbia, 1960. From 1963 to 1967 she was professor at the Univ. of Chicago, and in 1967 she became university professor at the New School for Social Research.

With the publication of Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) her status as a major political thinker was firmly established. In this book she examined the major forms of 20th-century totalitarianism—National Socialism (Nazism) and Communism—and attempted to trace their origins in the anti-Semitism and imperialism of the 19th cent. Her second major American publication, The Human Condition (1958), likewise received wide acclaim. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), her analysis of the Nazi war crimes based on observation of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, stirred considerable controversy and became known particularly for her concept of "the banality of evil."

Arendt also served as research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations (1944–46) and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, New York City (1949–52). Her other writings include On Revolution (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), On Violence (1969), and Crises of the Republic (1972).

See L. Kohler and H. Saner, ed., Hannah Arendt–Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969 (tr. by R. and R. Kimber, 1992), C. Brightman, ed., Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975 (1995), E. Ettinger, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger (1995), D. Villa, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (1995), and R. Wolin, Heidegger's Children (2001); studies by S. J. Whitfield (1980) and L. Bradshaw (1989).

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Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays » Read Now
by Sandra K. Hinchman, Lewis P. Hinchman. 428 pgs.

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...HANNAH ARENDT SUNY Series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues Philip Green, Editor HANNAH ARENDT CRITICAL ESSAYS EDITED BY Lewis...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...
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Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt » Read Now
by Dana R. Villa. 263 pgs.

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Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of...
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Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century.
Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil -- inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann -- does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above al
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The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt » Read Now
by Jennifer Ring. 358 pgs.

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In this book, Jennifer Ring offers a wholly new interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem, with its bitter reception by the Jewish community, to The Life of the Mind. Departing from previous scholarship, Ring applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity to investigate...
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In this book, Jennifer Ring offers a wholly new interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem, with its bitter reception by the Jewish community, to The Life of the Mind. Departing from previous scholarship, Ring applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity to investigate the extent to which Arendt's identity as a Jewish woman influenced both her thought and its reception.
Ring's analysis of Zionist and assimilationist responses to century-old antisemitic sexual stereotypes leads her to argue that Arendt's criticism of European Jewish leadership during the Holocaust was bound to be explosive. New York and Israeli Jews shared a rare moment of unity in their condemnation of Arendt, charging that she had betrayed the Jewish community -- the kind of charge, Ring contends, often leveled against women who dare to speak out publicly against prominent men in their own cultural or racial groups.
The book moves from a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy to a discussion of Jewish,themes in the structure and content of Arendt's major theoretical works. Ring makes a powerful contribution to an understanding of Arendt, and of multiculturalism, demonstrating that Arendt's most sustained philosophical work was influenced as much by her Jewish heritage as by her German education.
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The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt » Read Now
by Margaret Betz Hull. 190 pgs.

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The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of her contribution is long overdue. In part a result of Arendt's own insistence on calling herself a 'political thinker' throughout her career, this is...
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The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of her contribution is long overdue. In part a result of Arendt's own insistence on calling herself a 'political thinker' throughout her career, this is also due to a common tendency in philosophy to denigrate the political. This book explores the indisputable philosophical dimensions of her work. In particular, it examines Arendt's theoretical commitment to recognizing humanity as a plurality, which avoids the common mistake in Western philosophy of theoretically overemphasizing the self in isolation. Arendt's own personal dealings with aspects of her identity, namely her Jewishness and her womanhood, work to inform us of this position against solipsism.
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Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity » Read Now
by Norma Claire Moruzzi. 208 pgs.

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Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political » Read Now
by Dana R. Villa. 329 pgs.

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Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt » Read Now
by Bonnie Honig. 388 pgs.

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...FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HANNAH ARENDT RE-READING THE CANON NANCY TUANA...FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HANNAH ARENDT EDITED BY BONNIE HONIG...Feminist interpretations of...
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The Political Classics: Green to Dworkin (Chap. 7 "Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition") » Read Now
by Murray Forsyth, Maurice Keens-Soper. 296 pgs.

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Providing a lively and informed introduction to the last hundred years of political thinking--from T.H. Green's lectures to Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously--the third volume in the successful Political Classics series has been designed to enable all students of political ideas to gain a...
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Providing a lively and informed introduction to the last hundred years of political thinking--from T.H. Green's lectures to Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously--the third volume in the successful Political Classics series has been designed to enable all students of political ideas to gain a fuller appreciation of the great works which form the foundation of the subject. Besides giving a full analysis of the contents of each text, this book also highlights what makes the texts of central importance to an understanding of political philosophy. The twelve chapters concentrate on the ideas contained in the texts, rather than on the lives of their writers, and each chapter is supplemented with useful suggestions for further reading.
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Feminism, the Public and the Private (Chap. 3 "Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition, and Jurgen Habermas" and Chap. 4 "Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity") » Read Now
by Joan B. Landes. 508 pgs.

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Series Blurb Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study. Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the...
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Series Blurb Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study. Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the most important work on feminist issues, and concise, lively introductions to each volume crystallize the main line of debate in the field. The categories of public and private have been at the centre of feminist theory for the past three decades. Focusing on the gendered relations of sexuality and the body, family life and democratic citizenship, feminists have redirected public debate on questions of privacy and publicity. They have challenged leading theories of the public sphere, adding immeasurably to the historical and cross-cultural understanding of public and private life, from the rise of liberal and democratic institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to today's media-saturated public sphere. This volume presents the results of this multi-disciplinary feminist exploration. Contributors demonstrate the significance of the public/private distinction in feminist theory, its articulation in the modern and late modern public sphere, and its impact on identity politics within feminism in recent years. Feminism, the Public and the Private offers an essential perspective on feminist theory for students and teachers of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, history, political theory, geography and sociology.
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The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Chap. 4 "The Power of Solidarity: Hannah Arendt") » Read Now
by Amy Allen. 150 pgs.

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...The Power of Solidarity: Hannah Arendt 87 Foucault, Butler...Solidarity After Identity Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Feminist Theory...Foucault, Judith Butler...
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Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question (Chap. 2 "Imperialism, Self-Determination, and Violence: Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon" and Chap. Three "On the Jewish Question: Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt") » Read Now
by Joan Cocks. 219 pgs.

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From Kosovo to Québec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. It has been condemned as a source of hatred and war, yet embraced for stimulating community feeling and collective freedom. Joan Cocks explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by...
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From Kosovo to Québec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. It has been condemned as a source of hatred and war, yet embraced for stimulating community feeling and collective freedom. Joan Cocks explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by examining its place in the thought of eight politically engaged intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the antagonist of capital, Karl Marx; the critics of imperialism Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon; the liberal pluralist Isaiah Berlin; the neonationalist Tom Nairn, and the post-colonial writers, V. S. Naipaul and Edward Said. Cocks not only sheds new light on the complexities of nationalism but also reveals the tensions that have inspired and troubled intellectuals who have sought to lead lives between detached criticism and political passion.In lively, conversational prose, Cocks assesses their treatment of questions such as the mythology of national identity, the right to national self-determination, and the morality of nationalist violence. While ultimately critical of nationalism, she engages sympathetically even with its defenders. By illuminating the links that distinguished minds have drawn between thought and action on nationalism in politics, this stimulating work provides a rich foundation from which we ourselves might think or act more wisely when confronting a phenomenon that, in fundamental and perplexing ways, has shaped our world.
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The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics (Chap. 6 "Hannah Arendt's Politics of 'Action': The Elusive Search for Political Substance") » Read Now
by Joseph M. Schwartz. 332 pgs.

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Why have radical political theorists, whose thinking inspired mass movements for democracy, been so suspicious of political plurality? According to Joseph Schwartz, their doubts were involved with an effort to transcend politics. Mistakenly equating all social difference with the harmful way in...
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Why have radical political theorists, whose thinking inspired mass movements for democracy, been so suspicious of political plurality? According to Joseph Schwartz, their doubts were involved with an effort to transcend politics. Mistakenly equating all social difference with the harmful way in which particular interests dominated marketplace societies, radical thinkers sought a comprehensive set of "true human interests" that would completely abolish political strife. In extensive analyses of Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, and Arendt, Schwartz seeks to mediate the radical critique of democratic capitalist societies with the concern for pluralism evidenced in both liberal and postmodern thought. He thus escapes the authoritarian potential of the radical position, while appropriating its more democratic implications. In Schwartz's view, a reconstructed radical democratic theory of politics must sustain liberalism's defense of individual rights and social pluralism, while redressing the liberal failure to question structural inequalities. In proposing such a theory, he criticizes communitarianism for its premodern longing for a monolithic, virtuous society and challenges the "politics of difference" for its failure to question the undemocratic terrain of power on which "difference" is constructed. In conclusion, he maintains that an equitable distribution of power and resources among social groups necessitates not the transcendence of politics but its democratic expansion.
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Reason in Politics: Arendt and Gadamer on the Role of the Eide, in Polity » Read Now
by Lawrence J. Biskowski. 28 pgs.

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...shaped to a considerable extent by Hannah Arendts description of the tension between...considerable intellectual debt to Hannah Arendts elucidation of the...
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Perception, Empathy, and Judgment: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance (Chap. 2 "Hannah Arendt and The Crisis of Judgment") » Read Now
by Arne Johan Vetlesen. 391 pgs.

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This book is a study in moral theory. Its subject is the relation between morality and emotions. The account of moral performance advanced here has epistemological implications because in speaking of moral perceptions and judgment we need to know how the moral agent gains access to that over which perception and judgment are exercised.
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Social Theory after the Holocaust (Chap. 2 "Hannah Arendt: Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust") » Read Now
by Robert Fine, Charles Turner. 273 pgs.

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This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust�2s impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman�2s claim that social theory has either...
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This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust�2s impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman�2s claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its implications remains true.
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Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers (Chap. 12 "Hannah Arendt") » Read Now
by Joseph Epstein. 263 pgs.

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...American Scholar AS: Spring 1980 , Volume 49, Number 2. Copyright 1980 by the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa; "Hannah Arendt," by Peter Stern and Jean Yarbrough, from...

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