Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History

Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-589-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as Jürgen Zimmerer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct.

This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendt’s opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the jumping-off point for further investigations – including ones critical of Arendt – into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe, and the colonised world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Richard H.

Stone, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Richard H. King and Dan Stone

PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM

Chapter 1. Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought

Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Chapter 2. Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

Kathryn T. Gines

Chapter 3. When the Real Crime Began: Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism and the Dignity of the Western Philosophical Tradition

Robert Bernasconi

Chapter 4. Race and Bureaucracy Revisited: Hannah Arendt’s Recent Re-Emergence in African Studies

Christopher J. Lee

Chapter 5. On Pain of Extinction: Laws of Nature and History in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt

Tony Barta

PART II: NATION AND RACE

Chapter 6. The Refractory Legacy of Decolonization: Revisiting Arendt on Violence

Ned Curthoys

Chapter 7. Anti-Semitism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Self-Destruction of the Nation-State

Marcel Stoetzler

Chapter 8. Eichmann’s Mentality and Post-totalitarian Predicaments

Vlasta Jalušiè

PART III: INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES

Chapter 9. Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism: Moral Equivalence and Degrees of Evil in Modern Political Violence

Richard Shorten

Chapter 10. Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Violence

Andre Duarte

Chapter 11. The ‘Subterranean Stream of Western History

Robert Eaglestone

Chapter 12. Hannah Arendt and the Old ‘New Science’

Steven Douglas Maloney

Chapter 13. The Holocaust and ‘the Human’

Dan Stone

Conclusion: Arendt between Past and Future

Richard H. King

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stone, Dan
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (2002), Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography (2003), and Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-39: Before the War and Holocaust (2003).

King, Richard H.
Richard H. King is Professor (emeritus) of American Intellectual History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of The Party of Eros (1972), A Southern Renaissance (1980), Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992), Race, Culture and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970 (2004), and has co-edited Dixie Debates (1995) with Helen Taylor.

Richard H. King is Professor (emeritus) of American Intellectual History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of The Party of Eros (1972), A Southern Renaissance (1980), Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992), Race, Culture and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970 (2004), and has co-edited Dixie Debates (1995) with Helen Taylor.