Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22057-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

For many years Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) has been the object of intense debate. After her bitter critiques of Zionism, which seemed to nullify her early involvement with that movement, and her extremely controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Arendt became virtually a taboo figure in Israeli and Jewish circles. Challenging the "curse" of her own title, Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem carries the scholarly investigation of this much-discussed writer to the very place where her ideas have been most conspicuously ignored. Sometimes sympathetically, sometimes critically, these distinguished contributors reexamine crucial aspects of Arendt's life and thought: her complex identity as a German Jew; her commitment to and critique of Zionism and the state of Israel; her works on "totalitarianism," Nazism, and the Eichmann trial; her relationship to key twentieth-century intellectuals; her intimate and tense connections to German culture; and her reworkings of political thought and philosophy in the light of the experience of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aschheim, Steven E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors:

Steven E. Aschheim
Peter Baehr
Richard J. Bernstein
Leora Bilsky
Richard I. Cohen
Bernard Crick
Michael Halberstam
Agnes Heller
Walter Laqueur
Yaacov Lozowick
Michael R. Marrus
Hans Mommsen
Gabriel Motzkin
Susan Neiman
Anson Rabinbach
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Dana R. Villa
Annette Vowinckel
Lilliane Weissberg
Albrecht Wellmer
Moshe Zimmermann

Über Autor(innen)

Steven E. Aschheim is Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His previous books include The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990 (California, 1994), Culture and Catastrophe (1996), In Times of Crisis (2000), and Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer (2001).