Hannah Arendt and the uses of history
Subtitle: imperialism, nation, race, and genocide
By: edited by Richard King and Dan Stone.
Contributors: King, Richard H.; Stone, Dan, 1971-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845453619
Subjects: Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975; Totalitarianism; Racism; Imperialism; Political violence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard H. King and Dan Stone; title: Imperialism and colonialism; title: Race power, freedom, and the democracy of terror in German racialist thought / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey; title: Race thinking and racism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism / Kathryn T. Gines; title: When the real crime began: Hannah Arendt's the Origins of Totalitarianism and the dignity of the western philosophical tradition / Robert Bernasconi; title: Race and bureaucracy revisited: Hannah Arendt's recent re-emergence in African studies / Christopher J. Lee; title: On pain of extinction: laws of nature and history in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt / Tony Barta; title: Nation and race; title: The refractory legacy of decolonization: revisiting Arendt on violence / Ned Curthoys; title: Anti-semitism, the bourgeoisie, and the self-destruction of the nation-state / Marcel Stoetzler; title: Eichmann's mentality and post-totalitarian predicaments / Vlasta Jalušič; title: Intellectual genealogies and legacies; title: Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism: moral equivalence and degrees of evil in modern political violence / Richard Shorten; title: Hannah Arendt, biopolitics, and the problem of violence / Andre Duarte; title: The 'subterranean stream of Western history' / Robert Eaglestone; title: Hannah Arendt and the old 'new science' / Steven Douglas Maloney; title: The Holocaust and 'the human' / Dan Stone; title: Conclusion: "Arendt between past and future" / Richard H. King.