Michal Aharony

Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination (eBook, PDF)

The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length study to juxtapose Arendt's concept of total domination with actual testimonies of Holocaust survivors, this book both confronts Arendt's political theory of totalitarianism and calls for integration of the voices and narratives of the actors in the construction of political concepts and theoretical systems. Aharony engages with both well-known and non-canonical intellectuals and writers who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and analyzes the oral testimonies of survivors who are largely unknown. Scholars of political philosophy, political science, history, and Holocaust studies will find this an original and compelling book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134457892
• Artikelnr.: 42511466

Autorenporträt

Michal Aharony is the Deputy Editor of Dapim Journal: Studies on the Holocaust in the Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. She currently teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and at the Open University, Israel. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University, the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, and the Open University, Israel. Her research interests include history of political ideas in modern political thought and Holocaust studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Introduction 1. A Theoretical Account of Hannah Arendt's Conception of "Total Domination" 2. Hannah Arendt's Sources: The Public Discourse about the Concentration Camps 1943-1947 3. Witnessing 4. The Process of Dehumanization 5. Resisting Dehumanization 6. Resisting Dehumanization - The Case of the Sonderkommando 7. Total Domination Reconsidered - Between Theory and Human Experience Conclusion: Arendt against Arendt. Bibliography. Index

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Selected Contents: Introduction 1. A Theoretical Account of Hannah Arendt's
Conception of "Total Domination" 2. Hannah Arendt's Sources: The Public
Discourse about the Concentration Camps 1943-1947 3. Witnessing 4. The
Process of Dehumanization 5. Resisting Dehumanization 6. Resisting
Dehumanization - The Case of the Sonderkommando 7. Total Domination
Reconsidered - Between Theory and Human Experience Conclusion: Arendt
against Arendt. Bibliography. Index

Rezensionen

"It seems only fitting that a philosopher who abhorred rootlessness and thoughtlessness should become the object of Michal Aharony's empathic and thoughtful critique - a moving complement to Arendt 's pathbreaking work on totalitarianism." -James Miller, New School for Social Research

"There is no doubting the importance of Aharony's subject or the value of her contribution to the understanding of it. Her book is thoroughly researched, uses original material as well as published texts, and is coherently presented and well written ... Congratulations must be given to Michal Aharony on an excellent and important addition to our understanding of a very complex and challenging subject." Raymond Auerback, The Wiener Library. Full review can be found here: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Blog?item=201&returnoffset=0

"By the time ... Aharony (has) finished her critique, a reader has good reason to question very influential ideas of once highly regarded formative figures in the study of the Holocaust. Rarely in the annals of modern scholarship have so few so maligned so many at so great a cost to Truth and Honor." - Arthur Shostak, Department of Sociology, Drexel University, The European Legacy

"This is a good book. Its advertised purpose is to correct a one-sidedness in Hannah Arendt's construction of totalitarianism: namely, that Arendt reflects very deeply on the animating logic of totalitarianism's perpetrators, but curiously little on the perspective of the victims. Viewed in larger perspective, the book also contributes to an ongoing discussion. That is a discussion in which Arendt's voice is fundamental, and which concerns how we ought to interpret the significance of the institution of the concentration camp-both for the practice of totalitarianism and, indeed, for modernity at large." - Richard Shorten, Arendt Studies