Marilyn LaFay

Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-39295-4
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781137392954
• ISBN-10: 1137392959
• Artikelnr.: 39758156

Autorenporträt

Marilyn LaFay received her PhD in Political Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

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