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Thinking in Dark TimesHannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics$
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Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics

Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780823230754

Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011

DOI: 10.5422/fso/9780823230754.001.0001

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Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements

Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements

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(p.55) Hannah Arendt's Political Engagements
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Thinking in Dark Times
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Seyla Benhabib

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823230754.003.0005

This chapter examines three episodes in Arendt's political life and considers her own political engagements as they illuminate her conception of political agency. It covers, first, her Jewish politics in the interwar years, from 1926 to 1941; second is the phase from 1941 to 1948, referred to as the “heartbreak over the Jewish state”; and third is her engagement with the American republic from the early 1960s onward, which may be named “citizenship in a new republic”.

Keywords:   Hannah Arendt, political life, political agency, Jewish politics, citizenship

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