Hannah Arendt (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought)

Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt's unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I: ARENDT'S RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE POLITICAL 1 The Contradictions of Hannah Arendt's Political Thought 2 Freedom and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt 3 Hannah Arendt's Communications Concept of Power 4 Justice: On Relating Private and Public 5 Oases in the Desert: Hannah Arendt on Democratic Polities PART II: ARENDT'S PHILOSOPHICAL LINEAGE 6 Judging in a World of Appearances: A Commentary on Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Finale 7 Beyond Good and Evil: Arendt, Nietzsche, and the Aestheticization of Political Action 8 Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Remembrance PART III: DIFFERENCE, IDENTITY AND SELFHOOD IN ARENDT 9 Hannah Arendt and the Will 10 Arendt, Identity, and Difference 11 Arendt and the Shadow of the Other PART IV: THEORIZING DARK TIMES: TOTALITARIANISM, EICHMANN AND EVIL 12 Hannah Arendt and the Redemptive Power of Narrative 13 Common Sense and Political Barbarism in the Theory of Hannah Arendt 14 Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil 15 Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann Trial, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust PART V: CRITICAL EXTENSIONS/APPROPRIATIONS: ARENDT ON RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY 16 The Moral Costs of Political Pluralism: The Dilemmas of Difference and Equality in Arendt's "Reflections on Little Rock 17 Solidarity after Identity Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Feminist Theory 18 Refiguring the Jewish Question: Arendt, Proust, and the Politics of Sexuality Name Index