Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism

by Marilyn LaFay

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349483471
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/12/2014
Series:	Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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