Thinking in dark times : Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics / edited by Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan.

Other author Berkowitz, Roger, 1968-
Other author Katz, Jeffrey.
Other author Keenan, Thomas, 1959-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Descriptionx, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Thinking in dark times / Roger Berkowitz -- Politics -- Reflections on antisemitism / Christopher Hitchens -- Fiction as poison / George Kateb -- A discriminating politics / Uday Mehta -- Hannah Arendt's political engagements / Seyla Benhabib -- What does it mean to think about politics? / Mark Antaki -- Lying and politics -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- Citizenship -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. Bernstein -- Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Is evil banal? : a misleading question / Richard J. Bernstein -- Banality and cleverness : Eichmann in Jerusalem revisited / Peter Baehr -- Judging the events of our time / Jennifer L. Culbert -- Arendt's banality of evil thesis and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Yaron Ezrahi -- Judaism and cosmopolitanism -- Liberating the pariah : politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt / Leon Botstein -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish experience : thinking, acting, judging / Jerome Kohn -- The pariah as rebel : Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings / Ron H. Feldman -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Jewish to the core / Suzanne Vromen -- Thinking in dark times -- Thinking big in dark times / Drucilla Cornell -- Crimes of action, crimes of thought : Arendt on reconciliation, forgiveness, and judgment / Shai Lavi -- Solitude and the activity of thinking / Roger Berkowitz -- Sites of memory -- Exile readings : Hannah Arendt's library / Reinhard Laube -- Remembering Hannah : an interview with Jack Blum / Roger Berkowitz -- My Hannah Arendt project / Shy Abady.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009027934
ISBN9780823230754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823230759 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823230761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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