- 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 Identity
Hannah Arendt's Jewish Identity
- Chapter:
- (p.207) Hannah Arendt's Jewish Identity
- Source:
- Thinking in Dark Times
- Author(s):
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
The topic of Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity can be approached from many directions. This chapter considers Arendt in the context of the vision of world history articulated by her teacher and mentor Karl Jaspers, in which her people, the Jews of Palestine, were considered as one of the “Axial Age” peoples. It argues that it is Arendt's Jewish identity—not just the identity she asserted in defending herself as a Jew when attacked as one, but more deeply her connection to the Axial Age prophetic tradition—that made her the cosmopolitan she was, while Jaspers's cosmopolitanism was more learned than inherited and reinforced by group experience.
Keywords: Hannah Arendt, Jewish writers, political writers, Jews, cosmopolitanism, Karl Jaspers, Axial Age, Jewish identity
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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