Arendt and America
German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she penned her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
cop. 2015
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Hannah Arendt's world
- Guilt and responsibility
- The origins of totalitarianism in America
- Rediscovering the world
- Arendt, Tocqueville, and Cold War America
- Arendt, Riesman, and America as mass society
- Arendt and postwar American thought
- Reflections/refractions of race, 1945-1955
- Arendt, the schools, and civil rights
- The Eichmann case
- Against the liberal grain
- The revolutionary traditions
- The crises of Arendt's republic
- Conclusion: once more: the film, Eichmann, and evil.
