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

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by  Larry May, Jerome Kohn

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Hannah Arendt
Twenty Years Later
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Hannah Arendt
Twenty Years Later
edited by Larry May and Jerome Kohn
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hannah Arendt : twenty years later / edited by Larry May and Jerome
Kohn.
p- cm. — (Studies in contemporary German social thought)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-13319-9 (hc : alk. paper)
1. Arendt, Hannah—Contributions in political science. 2. Arendt,
Hannah. I. May, Larry. II. Kohn, Jerome. III. Series.
JC251.A74H39 1996
320.5'092—dc20 95-51067
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Contents
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BY Contributors
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Introduction
{oI Political Action and Judgment + za 9
1 Hannah Arendt as a Conservative Thinker 11 Ve
Margaret Canovan
9 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine va
33
of Reason
Albrecht Wellmer
3 The Moral Costs of Political Pluralism: The Dilemmas
of Difference and Equality in Arendt’s “Reflections on oy
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‘Little Rock”
Fames Bohman
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4 Socialization and Institutional Evil
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Larry May
107
5 The Commodification of Values
Elizabeth M. Meade ;
6 Did Hannah Arendt Change Her Mind?: From Radical
127 va
Evil to the Banality of Evil
Richard J. Bernstein
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Contents
7 Evil and Plurality: Hannah Arendt’s Way to The Life of
147/
the Mind, I
Jerome Kohn
8 The Banality of Philosophy: Arendt on Heidegger and
Eichmann 179 he
Dana R. Villa
197 Gut
III Self and World
199 \
9 Thinking about the Self
Suzanne Duvall Facobitti
10 Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Trial of (Post)|
Modernity or the Tale of Two Revolutions
David Ingram
11 The Political Dimension of the Public World: On
Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Martin Heidegger
Feffrey Andrew Barash
12 Love and Worldliness: Hannah Arendt’s Reading
of Saint Augustine
Ronald Beiner
IV Gender and Jewishness
13 Women in Dark Times: Rahel Varnhagen, Rosa
Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Me
Bat-Ami Bar On
14 Hannah Arendt among Feminists
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
15 Ethics in Many Different Voices
Annette C. Baier
Appendix: A Bibliography of Writings in English about
Hannah Arendt
Johann A. Klaassen and Angela Klaassen
Index