Arendt and America
By: Richard H. King
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780226311494
Subjects: Political scientists; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Hannah Arendt's world; title: Guilt and responsibility; title: The origins of totalitarianism in America; title: Rediscovering the world; title: Arendt, Tocqueville, and Cold War America; title: Arendt, Riesman, and America as mass society; title: Arendt and postwar American thought; title: Reflections/refractions of race, 1945-1955; title: Arendt, the schools, and civil rights; title: The Eichmann case; title: Against the liberal grain; title: The revolutionary traditions; title: The crises of Arendt's republic; title: Conclusion: once more: the film, Eichmann, and evil.