- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures
- Preface
- Editors' Note
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Introduction Thinking in Dark Times -
Part I Politics -
Reflections on Antisemitism
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Fiction as Poison
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A Discriminating Politics
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Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements
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What Does It Mean to Think About Politics?
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Part II Lying and Politics -
A Lying World Order
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Lying and History
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Part III Citizenship -
The Experience of Action
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Dissent in Dark Times
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Promising and Civil Disobedience
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Part IV Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem -
Is Evil Banal? A Misleading Question
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Banality and Cleverness
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Judging the Events of Our Time
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Arendt's Banality of Evil Thesis and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict
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Part V Judaism and Cosmopolitanism -
Liberating the Pariah
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Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience
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The Pariah as Rebel
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Hannah Arendt's Jewish Identity
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Jewish to the Core
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Part VI Thinking in Dark Times -
Thinking Big in Dark Times
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Crimes of Action, Crimes of Thought
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Solitude and the Activity of Thinking
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Part VII Sites of Memory -
Exile Readings
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Remembering Hannah
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My Hannah Arendt Project
- Contributors
- Index
Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience
Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience
Thinking, Acting, Judging
- Chapter:
- (p.179) Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience
- Source:
- Thinking in Dark Times
- Author(s):
Jerome Kohn
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter addresses the question: What is the importance of Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity? It argues that applying the term Jewish identity to Arendt is problematic and suggests the replacement of the word identity with the word experience. Because to doubt the importance of what Arendt experienced as a Jew, the witness she bore to the unprecedented catastrophe that befell Jews in her time, would be more than irresponsible. It would come closer than one could possibly wish to letting something precious and vital slip through one's fingers and disappear from sight.
Keywords: Hannah Arendt, Jewish identity, Jews, Jewish experience
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures
- Preface
- Editors' Note
-
Introduction Thinking in Dark Times -
Part I Politics -
Reflections on Antisemitism
-
Fiction as Poison
-
A Discriminating Politics
-
Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements
-
What Does It Mean to Think About Politics?
-
Part II Lying and Politics -
A Lying World Order
-
Lying and History
-
Part III Citizenship -
The Experience of Action
-
Dissent in Dark Times
-
Promising and Civil Disobedience
-
Part IV Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem -
Is Evil Banal? A Misleading Question
-
Banality and Cleverness
-
Judging the Events of Our Time
-
Arendt's Banality of Evil Thesis and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict
-
Part V Judaism and Cosmopolitanism -
Liberating the Pariah
-
Hannah Arendt's Jewish Experience
-
The Pariah as Rebel
-
Hannah Arendt's Jewish Identity
-
Jewish to the Core
-
Part VI Thinking in Dark Times -
Thinking Big in Dark Times
-
Crimes of Action, Crimes of Thought
-
Solitude and the Activity of Thinking
-
Part VII Sites of Memory -
Exile Readings
-
Remembering Hannah
-
My Hannah Arendt Project
- Contributors
- Index