Hannah Arendt: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers

		Hannah Arendt: Critical Assessments
Editor's introduction Contents Editorial advisory board Acknowledgements Publisher's information		Published in Routledge's Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers series in March 2006. Editor: Garrath Williams, Lecturer in Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. She gained fame for her historical study of totalitarianism, notoriety for her reportage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, and philosophical recognition for her explorations of (political) action and her critique of the Western tradition of political thought from Plato to Marx. She is likely to be the first woman to join the canon of the great philosophers. Arendt’s work has attracted a huge volume of scholarship. Especially in the USA, but also in Germany, France and the UK, further scholarly work is emerging at an increasing pace. Given that there was vigorous debate of her work in her lifetime, that there have since been several waves of evaluation and re-evaluation, and because a new generation of scholars is now coming to her work, a systematic collection of the critical assessments of her thought is extremely timely.
		Editorial introduction My general introduction to the volumes. pdf file to download
		Editorial contents The collection aims to cover the most important critical responses to Arendt’s work, in four volumes (with 0 and 1 together in the first volume). 0 Personal encounters and portraits 1 Arendt and political events 1.1 Totalitarianism: Reviews of The Origins of Totalitarianism; Later assessments 1.2 Methodology 1.3 Jewish identity and politics: Rahel Varnhagen; The enduring impact of Arendt's reflections on Zionism 2 Arendt and political philosophy 2.1 Rights and states 2.2 Democracy 2.3 Revolution 2.4 Controversies: 'Reflections on Little Rock'; Eichmann in Jerusalem 2.5 Feminist reflections 3 The Human Condition 3.1 Original reviews 3.2 Assessments of The Human Condition 3.3 The ethics of politics: Political existentialism?; Deliberation and agonism: the Habermasian critique; Arendt's political ethic 3.4 Greece and Rome 3.5 Modernity and the rise of the 'social' 3.6 Power and violence 4 Arendt and philosophy 4.1 Dialogues with other philosophers: Heidegger; Jaspers; Augustine; Hegel & Marx 4.2 Thinking, willing, judging: The Life of the Mind; Judgment 4.3 Reflections on evil The contents of the volumes can be viewed as a pdf file. Those looking for bibliographic information concerning commentary on Arendt may also be interested to view the list of suggestions I received, having approached many scholars of Arendt's work.
		Editorial advisory board Seyla Benhabib, Yale, USA Margaret Canovan, UK Wolfgang Heuer, Germany Jeffrey Isaac, Indiana, USA Morris Kaplan, SUNY at Purchase, USA Jerome Kohn, New School for Social Research Ursula Ludz, Germany Etienne Tassin, Paris VII, France Roy Tsao, Georgetown and Yale, USA
		Acknowledgements Owing to a production error, the first print run of the volumes omit my editorial acknowledgements. This is especially unfortunate as I relied so greatly on the generous help and assistance of many Arendt scholars in compiling the volumes - in the first place, my editorial advisory board, but also many other people besides. Routledge have supplied a pdf file of these acknowledgements. My deepest apologies to everyone whose help is not acknowledged in the volumes as they stand.
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