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Hannah Arendt And The Jewish Question (Paperback, Lst MIT Press ed)
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Hannah Arendt (1906--1975) was one of the most original and
interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this
new interpretation of her career, philosopher Richard Bernstein
situates Arendt historically as an engaged Jewish intellectual and
explores the range of her thinking from the perspective of her
continuing confrontation with "the Jewish question." Bernstein
argues that many themes that emerged in the course of Arendt's
attempts to understand specifically Jewish issues shaped her
thinking about politics in general and the life of the mind. By
exploring pivotal events of her life story - her arrest and
subsequent emigration from Germany in 1933, her precarious
existence in Paris as a stateless Jew working for Zionist
organizations, her internment at Gurs and her subsequent escape,
and finally her flight from Europe in 1941 - he shows how personal
experiences and her responses to them oriented her thinking.
Arendt's analysis of the Jews' lack of preparation for the vicious
political antiSemitism that arose in the last decade of the
nineteenth century, Bernstein argues, led her on a quest for the
ultimate meaning of politics and political responsibility.
Moreover, he points out that Arendt's deepest insights about
politics emerged from her reflections on statelessness and
totalitarian domination. Bernstein also examines Arendt's
attraction to and break with Zionism, and the reasons for her
critical stance toward a Jewish sovereign state. He then turns to
the issue that, in Arendt's opinion, needed most to be confronted
in the aftermath of World War II: the fundamental nature of evil.
He traces the nuances of her thinking from "radical evil" to "the
banality of evil"and, finally, reexamines "Eichmann in Jerusalem,"
her meditation on evil that caused a storm of protest and led some
to question her loyalty to the Jewish people.
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Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 1996 |
First published: |
July 1996 |
Authors: |
Richard J. Bernstein
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Dimensions: |
226 x 150 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
251 |
Edition: |
Lst MIT Press ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-52214-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
0-262-52214-4 |
Barcode: |
9780262522144 |
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