Title:
The portable Hannah Arendt
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Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Physical Description:
lxiii, 575 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780142437568
Abstract:
Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her treatment of work and labour; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual.
General Note:
"First published in the United States by Penguin Books 2000"--Title page verso
Contents:
I. OVERVIEW: WHAT REMAINS? -- "What Remains? The Language Remains": A Conversation with Günter Gaus -- II. STATELESS PERSONS -- That "Infinitely Complex Red-tape Existence": From a Letter to Karl Jaspers -- The Perplexities of the Rights of Man -- The Jewish Army-the Beginning of a Jewish Politics? -- Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795) -- Writing Rahel Varnhagen. From a Letter to Karl Jaspers -- III. TOTALITARIANISM -- The Jews and Society -- Expansion -- Total Domination -- Organized Guilt and Universal Responsibility -- A Reply to Eric Voegelin -- IV. THE VITA ACTIVA -- Labor, Work, Action -- The Public and the Private Realm -- Reflections on Little Rock -- The Social Question -- The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern -- V. BANALITY AND CONSCIENCE: THE EICHMANN TRIAL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS -- From Eichmann in Jerusalem ; An Expert on the Jewish Question ; The Final Solution: Killing ; The Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate ; Execution ; Epilogue ; Postscript -- "Holes of Oblivion": The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthy -- A "Daughter of Our People": A Response to Gershom Scholem -- From The Life of the Mind (volume 1) ; The Answer of Socrates ; The Two-in-One -- VI. REVOLUTION AND PRESERVATION -- Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) -- What Is Freedom? -- What Is Authority? -- The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost Treasure -- VII. OF TRUTH AND TRAPS -- Heidegger the Fox -- Truth and Politics.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
English.
