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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hannah Arendt and the specter of totalitarianism
  name:
    name part: LaFay, Marilyn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    date issued: 2014
    edition: 1. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    internet media type: image/jpeg
    extent: 193 S.
  abstract: "This book treats Hannah Arendt as a distinctly political writer who attempts to carve out 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. Marilyn LaFay argues that Arendt tries to bring a humanity into modernity, rejecting the argument that Arendt is an 'antimodernist lover of the Greek polis.' Rather, Arendt tries to politically reconcile the potential of humanity with the demands of the modern condition: she encourages us to locate and use the expressive element of the modern for our political ends. This work identifies the paradox of Arendt's choice of an expressive, existentialist interpretation of politics over that of a politics of vision and imagination, concluding that Arendt's politics leads to little more than political aesthetics"--
  abstract: "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. Arendt privileges an expressive, existentialist interpretation of politics over that of a politics of vision and imagination. What I argue is lacking in her political discussions is an understanding of political goals. Modernity, for her, is undifferentiated from totalitarianism. She offers us a psychological resistance to the totalitarian rather than focusing on potential outcomes of political life"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note:Introduction1. Love and Saint Augustine: The Abstracted Neighbor2. Rahel Varnhagen: The Strangeness of Me3. The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Surfeit of Superfluousness4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Crisis of Conscience5. On Revolution: The Fragility of Rights6. Arendt's Public Sphere: Locating a Political Existential7. The Encumbrance of History.
  note: Marilyn LaFay
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arendt, Hannah
      name part: 1906-1975
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Totalitarianism
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: JC251.A74
  classification: 320.01
  classification: 320.53
  classification: PHI010000 PHI019000 POL010000 POL042030
  classification: 320 100
  classification: 08.45
  classification: 89.36
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical political theory and radical practice
  related item:
    internet media type: image/jpeg
  identifier: 9781137392954
  identifier: 2013033219
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 131119
    record change date: 20220716132200.0
    record identifier: 771858035
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger