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Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

Marie Luise Knott

Author : Marie Luise Knott
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781590516485

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Unlearning with Hannah Arendt by Marie Luise Knott Pdf

Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non-psychopathic people? By revealing the full complexity of the trial with reasoning that defied prevailing attitudes, Arendt became the object of severe and often slanderous criticism, losing some of her closest friends as well as being labeled a “self-hating Jew.” And while her theories have continued to draw innumerable opponents, Arendt’s work remains an invaluable resource for those seeking greater insight into the more problematic aspects of human nature. Anchoring its discussion in the themes of translation, forgiveness, dramatization, and even laughter, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt explores the ways in which this iconic political theorist “unlearned” recognized trends and patterns—both philosophical and cultural—to establish a theoretical praxis all her own. Through an analysis of the social context and intellectual influences—Karl Jaspers, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger—that helped shape Arendt’s process, Knott has formed a historically engaged and incisive contribution to Arendt’s legacy.

Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?

Richard J. Bernstein

Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509528639

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Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? by Richard J. Bernstein Pdf

Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think about both the darkness of our times and the sources of illumination. He explores her thinking about statelessness and refugees; the right to have rights; her critique of Zionism; the meaning of the banality of evil; the complex relations between truth, lying, power, and violence; the tradition of the revolutionary spirit; and the urgent need for each of us to assume responsibility for our political lives. This short and very readable book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the forces that are shaping our world today.

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem

Author : Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226924519

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The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem by Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem Pdf

The essence of the correspondence between Arendt and Scholem can be said to lie in three things. Above all it provides an intimate account of how two great intellectuals try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, and how to think about Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust. They also debate the issue of what it means to be Jewish in the post-Holocaust world whether in New York or in Jerusalem. Finally, the specter of Benjamin haunts the work and in a sense the letters are as much about Benjamin as the other two questions since his life and tragic death epitomize them both. Arendt and Scholem's letters on these weighty questions are lightened by more routine exchanges: on travel itineraries, lunch or dinner parties where important people were present, and so forth. These daily details are woven throughout the correspondence and provide vivid biographical information about Arendt and Scholem that is unavailable in any other source.

Potential History

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Author : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788735711

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Potential History by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Pdf

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.

Hannah Arendt

Amy Allen

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754626946

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Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together important English-language essays on Arendt's contributions to social and political philosophy.

Visualizing Atrocity

Valerie Hartouni

Author : Valerie Hartouni
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814738498

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Visualizing Atrocity by Valerie Hartouni Pdf

Taking Hannah Arendt's account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure, this book reassesses the myths that shape our understanding of the Nazi genocide as well as totalitarianism's broader features. These myths are tied to the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps and played an evidentiary role in the post-war trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking were first established, and later institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as part of the fabric of historical fact. These ways of seeing have come to constitute a visual rhetoric that drives contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric.

Politics, Philosophy, Terror

Dana Villa

Author : Dana Villa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400823161

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Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil--inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann--does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above all to reinforce the totalitarian idea that humans are expendable units, subordinate to the all-determining laws of Nature or History. Villa clarifies the personal and philosophical relationship between Arendt and Heidegger, showing how her work drew on his thought while providing a firm repudiation of Heidegger's political idiocy under the Nazis. Less controversially, but as importantly, Villa also engages with Arendt's ideas about the relationship between political thought and political action. He explores her views about the roles of theatricality, philosophical reflection, and public-spiritedness in political life. And he explores what relationship, if any, Arendt saw between totalitarianism and the "great tradition" of Western political thought. Throughout, Villa shows how Arendt's ideas illuminate contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and democracy and how they deepen our understanding of philosophers ranging from Socrates and Plato to Habermas and Leo Strauss. Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

Ken Krimstein

Author : Ken Krimstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781526603722

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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein Pdf

'A genre-breaking insight into one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century' Stylist's Emerald Street 'Incredible' Deborah Levy A hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt led an extraordinary life. Having endured Nazi persecution firsthand, she fled across Europe, coming to live in a world inhabited by such luminaries as Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. She ultimately sacrificed her unique genius for philosophy and her love of a much-compromised man – the philosopher and Nazi-sympathiser Martin Heidegger – for what she called 'love of the world'. Strikingly illustrated, this compassionate and timely biography illuminates the life of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed yet irrefutably courageous woman whose experiences and writings shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought

Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan

Author : Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666900866

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Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought by Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan Pdf

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt’s work, such as love in its many forms, ethnicity and race, disability, human rights, politics, and statelessness. The collection is anchored by chapters on Arendt’s interpretation of Kant and her relation to early German Romanticism and phenomenology, while other chapters explore new perspectives, such as Arendt and film, her philosophical connections with other women thinkers, and her influence on Eastern European thought and activism. The collection expands the frames of reference for research on Arendt—both in terms of using a broader range of texts like her Denktagebuch and in examining her ideas about judgment, feminism, and worldliness in this wider context.

Thinking in Dark Times

Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan

Author : Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823230754

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Thinking in Dark Times by Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan Pdf

Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century. This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking.

Heidegger's Children

Richard Wolin

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691168616

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Heidegger's Children by Richard Wolin Pdf

Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious political views. In 1933, Heidegger cast his lot with National Socialism. He squelched the careers of Jewish students and denounced fellow professors whom he considered insufficiently radical. For years, he signed letters and opened lectures with ''Heil Hitler!'' He paid dues to the Nazi party until the bitter end. Equally problematic for his former students were his sordid efforts to make existential thought serviceable to Nazi ends and his failure to ever renounce these actions. This book explores how four of Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking. Hannah Arendt, who was Heidegger's lover as well as his student, went on to become one of the century's greatest political thinkers. Karl Löwith returned to Germany in 1953 and quickly became one of its leading philosophers. Hans Jonas grew famous as Germany's premier philosopher of environmentalism. Herbert Marcuse gained celebrity as a Frankfurt School intellectual and mentor to the New Left. Why did these brilliant minds fail to see what was in Heidegger's heart and Germany's future? How would they, after the war, reappraise Germany's intellectual traditions? Could they salvage aspects of Heidegger's thought? Would their philosophy reflect or completely reject their early studies? Could these Heideggerians forgive, or even try to understand, the betrayal of the man they so admired? Heidegger's Children locates these paradoxes in the wider cruel irony that European Jews experienced their greatest calamity immediately following their fullest assimilation. And it finds in their responses answers to questions about the nature of existential disillusionment and the juncture between politics and ideas.

Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

Daniel Maier-Katkin

Author : Daniel Maier-Katkin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393068337

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Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin Pdf

Two titans of 20th-century thought, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, are explored in depth: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.

On Love and Tyranny

Ann Heberlein

Author : Ann Heberlein
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487008123

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On Love and Tyranny by Ann Heberlein Pdf

In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible. The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. Arendt’s thinking is intimately entwined with her life and the concrete experiences she drew from her encounters with evil, but also from love, exile, statelessness, and longing. This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane. On Love and Tyranny brings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.

Hannah Arendt

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Author : Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300105886

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Hannah Arendt by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Pdf

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition: “Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review “A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”—Jim Miller, Newsweek “Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe “An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”—Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Cover drawing by David Schorr

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author : Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393608878

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams Pdf

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.

Unlearning With Hannah Arendt

Unlearning with Hannah Arendt by Marie Luise Knott Pdf

Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? by Richard J. Bernstein Pdf

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem by Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem Pdf

Potential History by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Pdf

Hannah Arendt by Amy Allen Pdf

Visualizing Atrocity by Valerie Hartouni Pdf

Politics, Philosophy, Terror by Dana Villa Pdf

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein Pdf

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought by Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan Pdf

Thinking in Dark Times by Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan Pdf

Heidegger's Children by Richard Wolin Pdf

Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin Pdf

On Love and Tyranny by Ann Heberlein Pdf

Hannah Arendt by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Pdf

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams Pdf

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