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ISBN
9780745665702
Genre
Algemeen
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28-05-2013
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Uitgever
Polity Press
Auteur(s)
Richard J. Bernstein
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question
Richard J. Bernstein
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Hannah
Arendt
is
increasingly
recognised
as
one
of
the
most
original
social
and
political
thinkers
of
the
twentieth
century.
In
this
important
book,
Richard
Bernstein
sets
out
to
show
that
many
of
the
most
significant
themes
in
Arendt's
thinking
have
their
origins
in
their
confrontation
with
the
Jewish
Question.
By
approaching
her
mature
work
from
this
perspective,
we
can
gain
a
richer
and
more
subtle
grasp
of
her
main
ideas.Bernstein
discusses
some
of
the
key
experiences
and
events
in
Arendt's
life
story
in
order
to
show
how
they
shaped
her
thinking.
He
examines
her
distinction
between
the
Jewish
parvenu
and
the
pariah,
and
shows
how
the
conscious
pariah
becomes
a
basis
for
understanding
the
independent
thinker.
Arendt's
deepest
insights
about
politics
emerged
from
her
reflections
on
statelessness,
which
were
based
on
her
own
experiences
as
a
stateless
person.
By
confronting
the
horrors
of
totalitarianism
and
the
concentration
camps,
Arendt
developed
her
own
distinctive
understanding
of
authentic
politics
-
the
politics
required
to
express
our
humanity
and
which
totalitarianism
sought
to
destroy.Finally,
Bernstein
takes
up
Arendt's
concern
with
the
phenomenon
of
the
banality
of
evil.
He
follows
her
use
of
Eichmann
in
order
to
explore
how
the
failure
to
think
and
to
judge
is
the
key
for
grasping
this
new
phenomenon.Hannah
Arendt
and
the
Jewish
Question
offers
a
new
interpretation
of
Arendt
and
her
work
-
one
which
situates
her
in
her
historical
context
as
an
engaged
Jewish intellectual.
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