ISBN: 9780801839238

Hannah Arendt still makes people angry. Her writings on the modern German-Jewish experience are deliberately challenging--and sometimes shocking--to an audience used to thinking of the Je… Mehr…

Hannah Arendt still makes people angry. Her writings on the modern German-Jewish experience are deliberately challenging--and sometimes shocking--to an audience used to thinking of the Jewish people as the victims of history. Visible Spaces is the most ambitious attempt to date to explore the origins and implications of Arendt's political thought. Dagmar Barnouw, an admiring yet critical reader, draws extensively on unpublished archival materials relating to the Jewish experience in modern Germany and its influence on Arendt's political philosophy. Arendt's work is discussed chronologically, from Origins of Totalitarianism to The Human Condition and the unfinished Life of the Mind. Barnouw also offers a challenging reassessment of Arendt's well-known report on the Eichman trial. The result is an insightful study of Arendt's thought in its complex historical context. Media > Book, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<

1990, ISBN: 0801839238

[SC: 72.38], [PU: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990], Jacket, , Barnouw, Dagmar, 1936-2008. Visible spaces. Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish experience. Baltimore : John… Mehr…

[SC: 72.38], [PU: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990], Jacket, , Barnouw, Dagmar, 1936-2008. Visible spaces. Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish experience. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, xii, 319pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, slight superficial stain on right foredge. CONTENTS: Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction: Thinking in Dark Times - The Quality of Judgment: Arendt and Kant - Society, Parvenu, and Pariah: The Life Story of a German Jewess - The Silence of Exile: Arendt's Critique of Political Zionism - The Quality of Guilt: The Trial of the Germans - Visible Spaces: Good Men and Good Citizens - The Obscurity of Evil: Listening to Eichmann - Notes - Index. 9780801839238 ISBN 0801839238<