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For many years Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) has been the object of intense debate. After her bitter critiques of Zionism, which seemed to nullify her early involvement with that movement, and her extremely controversial "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1963), Arendt became virtually a taboo figure in Israeli and Jewish circles. Challenging the "curse" of her own title, "Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem" carries the scholarly investigation of this much-discussed writer to the very place where her ideas have been most conspicuously ignored. Sometimes sympathetically, sometimes critically, these distinguished contributors reexamine crucial aspects of Arendt's life and thought: her complex identity as a German Jew; her commitment to and critique of Zionism and the state of Israel; her works on "totalitarianism", Nazism, and the Eichmann trial; her relationship to key twentieth-century intellectuals; her intimate and tense connections to German culture; and, her reworkings of political thought and philosophy in the light of the experience of the twentieth century.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
• Author: StevenE Aschheim
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440
• EAN: 9780520220577
• ISBN: 0520220579
• ID: 01329841
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 682 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 232 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2001

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