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Suggested items for inclusion

Below is a list of the English-language writings that were proposed to me by colleagues in the field, up to the end of April 2004.

As the volumes are now published, I am leaving this list on-line simply as a bibliography that may be of use to those researching Arendt's work. However, I am always happy to be told of new and old publications that colleagues believe are important, and plan to occasionally update this list in line with such suggestions.

The items are listed under some loose headings, as follows. A pdf file of suggestions received, A-Z by author is also available.

I. Arendt as political theorist

Totalitarianism
American politics
Jewish identity and politics
Historical methodology

II. Arendt as political philosopher

[To be classified: action, democracy, politics and the public realm]
Political ethics
The social and the political
Arendt and feminism
Applications

III. Arendt as philosopher

[To be classified]
The life of the mind
Judgment
Eichmann and the banality of evil
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Suggestions received as at 27 April 2004

I. Arendt as political theorist

Totalitarianism

Aron, Raymond ‘The Essence of Totalitarianism According to Hannah Arendt’ Partisan Review, Summer 1993, 60(3), 366-76

Aschheim, Steven ‘Nazism, Culture and The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and the Discourse of Evil,’ New German Critique, 70 (Winter 1997), 117-139

Baehr, Peter ‘Identifying the Unprecedented: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Critique of Sociology,’ American Sociological Review 67(6), 2002: 804-831

Bar On, Bat-Ami "A Legacy of Women in Dark Times" and "Thoughtless Action into Nature and The Violence of Genocide," both from her The Subject of Violence (Rowman 2002)

Buckler, Steve ‘The curtailment of memory: Hannah Arendt and post-Holocaust culture,’ The European Legacy 2001, 6(3): 287-303

Canovan, Margaret ‘Totalitarian Elements in Marxism,’ ch. 3 of her Hannah Arendt: a reinterpretation of her political thought

Crick, Bernard ‘On Rereading The Origins of TotalitarianismSocial research 44(1), 1977

Dietz, Mary ‘Transfiguring Evening Glow: Arendt and the Holocaust,’ from her book Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics

Hagtvet, Bernt ‘The Theory of Mass Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic: A Re-Examination,’ in S. Larsen, B. Hagtvet, and J. Myklebust, eds. Who Were the Fascists? Social Roots of European Fascism (Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforaget, 1980)

Halberstam, Michael ‘Hannah Arendt on the Totalitarian Sublime and its promise of Freedom’ in Aschheim, Steven (ed) Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001

Heller, Agnes "An Imaginary Preface to the 1984 edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism" in R. Schurmann, ed. The Public Realm (State University of New York Press, 1988)

Mayer, Robert ‘Hannah Arendt, national socialism and project of foundation’ Review of politics 47(3), 1991, 469-87

Stanley, John ‘Is totalitarianism a new phenomenon?’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, ed, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Tsao, Roy ‘The Three Phases of Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism’ Social Research, 69(2), 2002: 579-619

Tsao, Roy "Arendt & The Modern State: Variations on Hegel in The Origins of Totalitarianism," Review of Politics 66 (2004)

Young-ah Gottlieb, Susannah ‘The Spaces of Anxiety: Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism,’ from her Regions of Sorrow

Whitfield, Stephen ‘Hannah Arendt and Apocalypse,’ Michigan Quarterly Review, 26 (Summer 1987), 445-458

American politics

Allen, Danielle ‘Law’s Necessary Forcefulness: Ralph Ellison vs. Hannah Arendt on the Battle of Little Rock,’ Oklahoma City Univerisity Law Review 2001

Bohman, Jim ‘The Moral Costs of Political Pluralism: The Dilemmas of Equality and Difference in Arendt’s “Reflections on Little Rock”,’ in Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later, eds. L. May and J. Kohn (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 53-80

Canovan, Margaret ‘Civil disobedience,’ ch. from her Hannah Arendt: a reinterpretation of her political thought

Kateb, George "Modern Democracy," ch. from his Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (Rowman & Littlefield, 1987)

King, Richard ‘American Dilemmas, European Experiences,’ [on Little Rock] Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 56 (Autumn 1997), 314-333

Nisbet, Robert ‘Hannah Arendt and the American revolution,’ Social research 44(1), 1977, 63-79

Jewish identity and politics

Barnouw, Dagmar ‘The Silence of Exile: Arendt’s Critique of Political Zionism’ ch. 3 of her Visible Spaces

Benhabib, Seyla ‘The Pariah and her Shadow: Hannah Arendt’s biography of Rahel Varnhagen’ Political Theory, 23(1), 1995

Botstein, Leon ‘Liberating the pariah: politics, the Jews and Hannah Arendt,’ Salmagundi 60, 1983, 73-106

Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon "Binationalism and Jewish Identity: Hannah Arendt and the Question of Palestine" in Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven Aschheim (University of California Press, 2001), 165-180

Zimmermann, Moshe "Hannah Arendt, the Early 'Post-Zionist'" in Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven Aschheim (University of California Press, 2001), 181-193

Methodology

Disch, Lisa ‘More Truth than Fact: Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah Arendt’ Political Theory 21:4, 1993

Luban, David ‘Explaining Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Theory,’ Social Research 1983, 50(1)

Shklar, Judith ‘Rethinking the past’ Social research 44(1), 1977, 80-90

Vollrath, Ernst "Hannah Arendt and the Method of Political Thinking" Social Research 44(1) (1977)

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth ‘Hannah Arendt’s Storytelling,’ Social Research, 44(1), 1977

II. Arendt as political philosopher

Auden, W. H. ‘Thinking What We Are Doing’ in Encounter 12 (June 1959), 72-6. Reprinted in A. Krystal, ed. A Company of Readers (NY: Free Press, 2001)

Barnard, F Mechner ‘Infinity and finality: Hannah Arendt on politics and truth,’ Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 1(3), 1977, 29-57

Beiner, Ronald ‘Hannah Arendt on Capitalism and Socialism,’ Government and Opposition (Summer 1990)

Benhabib, Seyla ‘Hannah Arendt and the redemptive power of narrative’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Brown, Wendy ‘Arendt: the fragility of politics,’ in her Manhood and politics, Rowman & Littlefield, 1988: 23-31

Canovan, Margaret ‘Hannah Arendt as a Conservative Thinker’ in May and Kohn, eds, 1996

Canovan, Margaret ‘A Case of Distorted Communication: A Note on Habermas and Arendt,’ Political Theory, 1983, 11(1): 105-116

Canovan, Margaret ‘Friendship, truth and politics’ in Mendus (ed) Justifying toleration, 1988

Canovan, Margaret ‘Politics as culture’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Chiba, Shin ‘Hannah Arendt on love and the political,’ Review of Politics, 57:3, 1995, 505-35

Curtis, Kimberley ‘Aesthetic Foundations of Democratic Politics in the Work of Hannah Arendt’ in Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics, ed. Craig Calhoun and John McGowan (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 27-52 [or a chapter from her book Our Sense of the Real]

Dolan, Frederick M. ‘Political Action and the Unconscious: Arendt and Lacan on Decentering the Subject,’ Political Theory, 1995, 23(2): 330-352

Frampton, Kenneth ‘The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition’ in his Labor, Work, Architecture (Phaidon, 2002) and in Melvyn Hill, Hannah Arendt

Grafstein, Robert ‘Political freedom and political action,’ Western Political Quarterly 39(3), 1986, 464-79

Habermas, Jürgen ‘Hannah Arendt’s Communications Concept of Power,’ Social Research 1977, 44(1): 2-24

Hammer, Dean ‘Hannah Arendt and Roman Political Thought: The Practice of Theory,’ Political Theory 2002, 30(1): 124-149

Hammer, Dean ‘Hannah Arendt, Identity, and the Politics of Visibility,’ Contemporary Politics 1997, 3: 321-339

Hinchman, Sandra ‘Common sense and political barbarism in the thought of Hannah Arendt’ Polity 17(2), 1984: 317-39

Honig, Bonnie ‘Declarations of Independence: Arendt and Derrida on the Problem of Founding a Republic,’ American Political Science Review, 1991, 85(1): 97-114 (revised version in vol edited by Dolan and Dumm)

Honig, Bonnie - ch on Arendt from her Political theory and the Displacement of Politics

Isaac, Jeff ‘Oases in the desert: Hannah Arendt on democratic politics,’ American Political Science Review 88(1), 1994, 156-67

Isaac, Jeff ‘Situating Hannah Arendt on action and politics,’ Political theory 21(3), 1993, 534-40

Isaac, Jeffrey "A New Guarantee on Earth: Hannah Arendt on Human Dignity and the Politics of Human Rights," American Political Science Review 90/1 (1996)

Jay, Martin ‘The Political Existentialism of Hannah Arendt,’ in his Permanent Exiles (1986)

Kateb, George ‘Political action: its nature and advantages’ in D Villa (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 130-148

Keenan, Alan ‘Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt,’ Political Theory 1994, 22(2): 297-322

Lang, Berel ‘Hannah Arendt and the politics of evil’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Lefort, Claude ‘Hannah Arendt and the Question of the Political,’ ch. 3 of his Democracy and Political Theory (University of Minnesota, 1988; orig. pub. Editions du Seuil, 1986)

Lloyd, Margie ‘In Tocqueville’s shadow: Hannah Arendt’s liberal republicanism,’ Review of Politics, 57:1, 1995, 31-58

Michaelman, Frank "Parsing 'A Right to Have Rights'," Constellations 3/2 (1996), 200-9

Pirro, Robert ‘Tragic Recognition’ and ‘Making a Tragedy of the Nazi Past,’ from Ch. 4 of his Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000), 131-152

Ricoeur, Paul ‘Action, Story and History: On Re-reading The Human Condition,’ Salmagundi 1983, 60: 60-72

Ring, Jennifer ‘On Needing Both Marx and Arendt: Alienation and the Flight from Inwardness,’ Political Theory 1989, 17(3): 432-448

Ring, Jennifer ‘The pariah as hero: Hannah Arendt’s political actor’ Political theory 19(3), 1991, 433-52

Ring, Jennifer ‘Transition,’ ch 6 of her The Political Consequences of Thinking, 157-171

Sitton, John ‘Hannah Arendt’s argument for council democracy’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, ed, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Speight, Allen ‘Arendt & Hegel on the Tragic Nature of Action,’ Philosophy & Social Criticism 28/5 (2002)

Sterberger, Dolf ‘The sunken city: Hannah Arendt’s idea of politics’ Social research 44, 1977, 132-46

Tsao, Roy ‘Arendt Against Athens,’ Political Theory 2001, 30(1), 97-123

Villa, Dana ‘Beyond Good and Evil: Arendt, Nietzsche, and the Aestheticization of Political Action,’ Political Theory 1992, 20(2): 274-308

Waldron, Jeremy ‘Arendt’s Constitutional Politics,’ in Villa (ed) Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt

Wolin, Sheldon ‘Hannah Arendt: democracy and the political’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, ed, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Wolin, Sheldon ‘Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time’ Social Research 1977, 44(1), 91-105

Young-ah Gottlieb, Susannah ‘Arendt’s Messianism,’ ch. 3 of her Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford, 2003)

Political ethics

Bickford, Susan [ch. on Arendt's understanding of representative thinking] in her The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship (1996)

Biskowski, Lawrence ‘Practical Foundations for Political Judgment: Arendt on Action and World’ Journal of Politics 1993, 55(4): 867-887

Dietz, Mary ‘“The slow boring of hard boards”: methodical thinking and the work of politics,’ American Political Science Review 88(4): 873-886 (revised version in TO)

Feldman, Leonard C ‘Political Judgment with a Difference: Agonistic Democracy and the Limits of “Enlarged Mentality”,’ Polity 1999, 32(1): 1-24

Grunenberg, Antonia ‘Totalitarian Lies and Post-Totalitarian Guilt: The Question of Ethics in Democratic Politics,’ Social Research, 2002, 69(2)

Knauer, James ‘Motive and Goal in Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Political Action,’ American Political Science Review, 1980, 74(3): 721-733

McClure, Kirstie ‘The Odor of Judgment: Exemplarity, Propriety and Politics in the Company of Hannah Arendt’ in Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics, ed. Craig Calhoun and John McGowan (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 53-84

Orlie, Melissa ‘Thoughtless assertion and political deliberation,’ APSR 88(3), 1994: 684-95

Williams, Garrath ‘Love and Responsibility: A Political Ethic for Hannah Arendt’ Political Studies 46, 1998: 937-50

The social and the political

Bernstein, Richard J ‘Rethinking the Social and the Political’ in his Philosophical Profiles

Connolly, William E ‘A critique of pure politics,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 1997, 23(5): 1-26

Elshtain, Jean B ‘Hannah Arendt’s French revolution,’ Salmagundi 84, 1989: 203-13

Hobsbawm, Eric Review essay of On Revolution, reprinted in his Revolutionaries (Pantheon 1973)

O’Sullivan, Noel ‘Hellenic nostalgia and industrial society’ in de Crespigny & Minogue (eds), Contemporary political philosophers, 1975: 228-51

Pitkin, Hanna ‘Justice: On Relating Private and Public,’ Political Theory 1981, 9(3): 327-352

Pitkin, Hanna ‘Conformism, Housekeeping and the Attack of the Blob’ from Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, ed. Honig

Arendt and feminism

Allen, Amy ‘Solidarity after Identity Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Feminist Theory’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 25: 1, 1999

Dietz, Mary ‘The Arendt Question in Feminism,’ from her book Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics

Dietz, Mary ‘Citizenship with a feminist face: the problem with maternal thinking,’ Poltiical theory, 13, 1985: 19-37

Dietz, Mary ‘Hannah Arendt and feminist politics’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Honig, Bonnie ‘Arendt, identity and difference’ Political theory 16(1), 1988, 77-98

Honig, Bonnie ‘Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity,’ in Honig (ed) Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt

Kaplan, Morris ‘Refiguring the Jewish Question’ in Bonnie Honig (ed), Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt

Lane, Ann ‘The feminism of Hannah Arendt’ Democracy 3(3), 1983, 107-17

Applications

Cooper, Barry ‘Action into nature: Hannah Arendt’s reflections on technology’ in Day/Beiner/Masciulli, eds, Democratic theory and technological society, 1988, 316-35

Schell, Jonathan ‘The unfinished twentieth century,’ title essay from his book of that name (Verso, 2001)

Whiteside, Kerry ‘Hannah Arendt and ecological politics,’ Environmental Ethics 16(4), 1994, 339-58

III. Arendt as philosopher

Barash, Jeffrey Andrew ‘The Political Dimension of the Public World: On Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Martin Heidegger,’ in Twenty Years Later

Beatty, Joseph ‘Thinking and moral considerations’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Beiner, Ronald ‘Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Uncommenced Dialogue,’ Political Theory 1990, 18(2): 238-254

Gray, J. Glenn ‘The Winds of Thought’ Social Research 44, 1977: 44-62

Heller, Erich ‘Hannah Arendt as a critic of literature’ Social Research 44(1), 1977, 147-59

Hinchman, Lewis & Sandra ‘In Heidegger’s Shadow: Hannah Arendt’s Phenomenological Humanism’ Review of Politics 46, 1984: 183-211

Hinchman, Lewis & Sandra ‘Existentialism politicised: Arendt’s debt to Jaspers’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Honohan, Iseult ‘Arendt and Benjamin on the Promise of History: A Network of Possibilities or One Apocalyptic Moment?,’ Clio 1990,  19(4): 311-330

Jonas, Hans ‘Acting, Knowing, Thinking: Gleanings from Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Work’ Social Research 44(1), 1977

Kateb, George ‘Arendt and Individualism,’ Social Research vol. 61 (Winter 1994), no. 4, 765-794

Kohn, Jerome ‘Thinking/acting’ Social Research 57(1), 1990: 105-34

Villa, Dana ‘The Banality of Philosophy: Arendt on Heidegger and Eichmann,’ from Hannah Arendt Twenty Years Later ed. Kohn and May

The life of the mind

Flynn, Bernard "The Places of the Work of Art in Arendt's Philosophy" Philosophy & Social Criticism 17 (1991), 317-228

Heller, Agnes "Hannah Arendt on the Vita Contemplativa" in Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom, ed. G. Kaplan & C. Kessler (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989)

Jacobitti, Suzanne ‘Hannah Arendt and the Will’ Political theory 16, 1988, 53-76

Kohn, Jerome ‘Evil and Plurality: Hannah Arendt’s Way to The Life of the Mind, I’ in May and Kohn (eds), Hannah Arendt:  Twenty Years Later

Yarbrough & Stern ‘Vita activa and vita contemplative: reflections on Hannah Arendt’s political thought in The life of the mindReview of politics 43(3), 1981, 323-54

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth ‘Reflections on Hannah Arendt’s Life of the mind’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, ed, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Judgment

Beiner, Ronald ‘Judging in a world of appearances’ (reprinted in Hinchman & Hinchman, eds, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, SUNY, 1994)

Beiner, Ronald ‘Rereading Hannah Arendt’s Kant Lectures’ Philosophy And Social Criticism (January 1997), revised version in RB & Jennifer Nedelsky (eds) Judgment, Imagination, And Politics: Themes From Kant And Arendt (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)

Benhabib, Seyla ‘Judgment and the moral foundations of politics’ Political Theory, 16(1), 1988: 29-51

Ferrara, Alessandro ‘Judgment, identity, authenticity,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1998, 24:2/3

Flakne, April ‘Through Thick and Thin: Reflective Judgment and Ethical-Political Validity,’ forthcoming in Hypatia

Kateb, George ‘The Judgment of Arendt,’ Revue internationale de philosophie 53, no. 208, 1999: 133-154

Steinberger, Peter ‘Hannah Arendt on judgment’ AJPS 34(3), 1990, 803-21

Wellmer, Albrecht ‘Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason,’ reprinted in Beiner & Nedelsky (eds), Judgment, Imagination, And Politics

Eichmann and the banality of evil

Bernstein, Richard J ‘Did Hannah Arendt Change Her Mind? From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil’ in Twenty Years Later

Clark, Barry ‘Beyond “The Banality of Evil”’ British Journal of Political Science, 10(4), 1980: 417-439

Gorham, Eric ‘Making an Example of Eichmann,’ Ch 4 of his The Theater of Politics:  Hannah Arendt, Political Science, and Higher Education

Mommsen, Hans ‘Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann Trial’ [1986], in his From Weimar to Auschwitz, trans. Philip O’Connor (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991)

Ophir, Adi "Between Eichmann and Kant: Thinking on Evil after Arendt" History and Memory, 8(2) (fall/winter 1996), 89-136

Ring, Jennifer ‘Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann controversy: cultural taboos against female anger’ Women and Politics 18:4, 1997, 57-79

Vetlesen, Arne ‘Hannah Arendt on conscience and evil’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 27(5), 2001: 1-33

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