Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism

Informationen zum Autor Marilyn LaFay received her PhD in Political Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick in 2013. This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation. This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Love and Saint Augustine: The Abstracted Neighbor 2. Rahel Varnhagen: The Strangeness of Me 3. The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Surfeit of Superfluousness 4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Crisis of Conscience 5. On Revolution: The Fragility of Rights 6. Arendt's Public Sphere: Locating a Political Existential 7. The Encumbrance of History

List of contents

Introduction 1. Love and Saint Augustine: The Abstracted Neighbor 2. Rahel Varnhagen: The Strangeness of Me 3. The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Surfeit of Superfluousness 4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Crisis of Conscience 5. On Revolution: The Fragility of Rights 6. Arendt's Public Sphere: Locating a Political Existential 7. The Encumbrance of History

Product details

• Authors: M. LaFay, Marilyn LaFay
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2014
• EAN: 9781349483471
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48347-1
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice; Critical Political Theory and; Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, social and political philosophy, Political History, Social Philosophy, History: specific events and topics, World Politics, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Political Science Collection, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy, Modern, Hannah Arendt;revolution;work