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Arendt and America (Hardcover)
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Arendt and America (Hardcover)
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German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the
Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in
America she penned her best-known and most influential works, such
as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On
Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her
oeuvre was written in America-not Europe-no one has directly
considered the influence of America on her thought-until now. In
Arendt and America, historian Richard H. King argues that while all
of Arendt's work was haunted by her experience of totalitarianism,
it was only in her adopted homeland that she was able to formulate
the idea of the modern republic as an alternative to totalitarian
rule. Situating Arendt within the context of US intellectual,
political, and social history, King reveals how Arendt developed an
extensive grasp of American constitutional history and how her idea
of the American republic grew through her dialogue with the work of
Alexis de Tocqueville. King also re-creates her intellectual
exchanges with American friends and colleagues, such as Dwight
Macdonald and Mary McCarthy, and shows how her lively
correspondence with sociologist David Riesman helped her understand
modern American culture and society. In the last section of Arendt
and America, King sets out the context in which the Eichmann
controversy took place and follows the debate about "the banality
of evil" that has continued ever since. As King shows, Arendt's
work, regardless of focus, was shaped by postwar American thought,
culture, and politics, including the Civil Rights Movement and the
Cold War. For Arendt, the United States was much more than a refuge
from Nazi Germany; it was a stimulus to rethink the political,
ethical, and historical traditions of human culture. This
authoritative combination of intellectual history and biography
offers a unique approach for thinking about the influence of
America on Arendt's ideas and also the effect of her ideas on
American thought.
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