Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520220577)

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.

Author: Steven E. Aschheim
ISBN-10: 0520220579
ISBN-13: 9780520220577
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2001
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.08w x 1.32d