| Description |
vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard H. King and Dan Stone -- Imperialism and colonialism -- Race power, freedom, and the democracy of terror in German racialist thought / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- Race thinking and racism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism / Kathryn T. Gines -- When the real crime began : Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism and the dignity of the western philosophical tradition / Robert Bernasconi -- Race and bureaucracy revisited : Hannah Arendt's recent reemergence in African studies / Christopher J. Lee -- On pain of extinction : laws of nature and history in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt / Tony Barta -- Nation and race -- The refractory legacy of decolonization : revisiting Arendt on violence / Ned Curthoys -- Anti-semitism, the bourgeoisie, and the self-destruction of the nation-state / Marcel Stoetzler -- Post-totalitarian elements and Eichmann's mentality in the Yugoslav War and mass killings / Vlasta Jalušič -- Intellectual genealogies and legacies -- Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism : moral equivalence and degrees of evil in modern political violence / Richard Shorten -- Hannah Arendt, biopolitics, and the problem of violence : from animal laborans to homo sacer / André Duarte -- The 'subterranean stream of Western history' : Arendt and Levinas after Heidegger / Robert Eaglestone -- Hannah Arendt and the old 'new science' / Steven Douglas Maloney -- The Holocaust and 'the human' / Dan Stone -- Conclusion : "Arendt between past and future" / Richard H. King |
| Summary |
"Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of "superior races" to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as Jurgen Zimmer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct." -- Back cover |
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"This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendt's opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the point of departure for further investigations - including ones critical of Arendt - into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery, and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe and the colonized world."-- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Origins of totalitarianism
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Totalitarianism.
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Racism.
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Imperialism.
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Political violence.
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| Author |
King, Richard H.
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Stone, Dan, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2007024366 |
| ISBN |
9781845453619 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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