
Hannah Arendt and the specter of totalitarianism / Marilyn LaFay
"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 h...
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Main Authors: | LaFay, Marilyn (Author) |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 |
Edition: | 1. ed |
Series: | Critical political theory and radical practice
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Online Access: | Cover Cover |
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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. |