Hannah Arendt and the specter of totalitarianism

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    • LaFay, Marilyn

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Hannah Arendt and the specter of totalitarianism

Marilyn LaFay

(Critical political theory and radical practice)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index

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Description

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.

Table 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

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