Hannah Arendt and the uses of history : imperialism, nation, race, and genocide

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Hannah Arendt and the uses of history : imperialism, nation, race, and genocide

edited by Richard H. King and Dan Stone

Berghahn Books, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-270)

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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 Jurgen 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.

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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 Jalusie 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

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