Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most important political philosophers of our century. Born in Germany, Arendt studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. She escaped after the Nazis came to power; remained stateless until 1951, when she became a U.S. citizen; was the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton; and became a prominent "public intellectual" whose positions were often controversial. Her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Human Condition, and The Life of the Mind (unfinished at her death). Now, twenty years later, this collection of fifteen essays brings her work into dialogue with those philosophical views that are at center stage today -- in critical theory, communitarianism, virtue theory, and feminism. The essays are divided into four sections: Political Action and Judgment; Ethics and the Nature of Evil; Self and World; and Gender and Jewishness. An extensive bibliography of work on Arendt in English is included as an appendix. Hannah Arendt As A Conservative Thinker / Margaret Canovan -- Hannah Arendt On Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine Of Reason / Albrecht Wellmer -- The Moral Costs Of Political Pluralism: The Dilemmas Of Difference And Equality In Arendt's Reflections On Little Rock / James Bohman -- Socialization And Institutional Evil / Larry May -- The Commodification Of Values / Elizabeth M. Meade -- Did Hannah Arendt Change Her Mind?: From Radical Evil To The Banality Of Evil / Richard J. Bernstein -- Evil And Plurality: Hannah Arendt's Way To The Life Of The Mind, I / Jerome Kohn -- The Banality Of Philosophy: Arendt On Heidegger And Eichmann / Dana R. Villa -- Thinking About The Self / Suzanne Duvall Jacobitti -- Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Trial Of (post) Modernity Or The Tale Of Two Revolutions / David Ingram -- The Political Dimension Of The Public World: On Hannah Arendt's Interpretation Of Martin Heidegger / Jeffrey Andrew Barash -- Love And Worldliness: Hannah Arendt's Reading Of Saint Augustine / Ronald Beiner -- Women In Dark Times: Rachel Varnhagen, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, And Me / Bat-ami Bar On -- Hannah Arendt Among Feminists / Elisabeth Young-bruehl -- Ethics In Many Different Voices / Annette C. Baier -- Appendix. A Bibliography Of Writings In English About Hannah Arendt / Johann A. Klaasen And Angela Klaasen. Edited By Larry May And Jerome Kohn. A Bibliography Of Writings In English About Hannah Arendt: P. [347]-372. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. I: Political action and judgment. Hannah Arendt as a conservative thinker / Margaret Canovan ; Hannah Arendt on judgment : the unwritten doctrine of reason / Albrecht Wellmer ; The moral costs of political pluralism : the dilemmas of difference and equality in Arendt's "Reflections on Little Rock" / James Bohman -- II: Ethics and the nature of evil. Socialization and institutional evil Larry May ; The commodification of values / Elizabeth M. Meade ; Did Hannah Arendt change her mind? : from radical evil to the banality of evil / Richard J. Bernstein ; Evil and plurality : Hannah Arendt's way to The life of the mind, I / Jerome Kohn ; The banality of philosophy : Arendt on Heidegger and Eichmann / Dana R. Villa -- III: Self and world. Thinking about the self / Suzanne Duvall Jacobitti ; Novus ordo seclorum : the trial of (post) modernity or the tale of two revolutions / David Ingram ; The political dimension of the public world : on Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Martin Heidegger / Jeffrey Andrew Barash ; Love and worldliness : Hannah Arendt's reading of St. Augustine / Ronald Beiner -- IV: Gender and Jewishness. Women in dark times : Rahel Varnhagen, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and me / Bat-Ami Bar On ; Hannah Arendt among feminists / Elizabeth Young-Bruehl ; Ethics in many different voices / Annette C. Baier This collection provides readings and re-readings of significant aspects of Hannah Arendt's work, suggesting that, 20 years after her death in 1975, we can better afford to listen to her