Marilyn LaFay

Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism

• Broschiertes 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: 978-1-349-48347-1
• 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781349483471
• ISBN-10: 1349483478
• Artikelnr.: 45083131

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