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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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Lying and History

Lying and History

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(p.79) Lying and History
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Thinking in Dark Times
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Cathy Caruth

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823230754.003.0008

This chapter addresses the problem of violence in the political realm by focusing on a question that emerges out of several late works by Hannah Arendt: What is history in the time of what Arendt calls “the modern lie”? In “Truth and Politics” (1967) and “Lying in Politics” (1971), Arendt reflects on what she considers a profound philosophical conundrum at the heart of politics and the political: an intimate and foundational relation between politics and the lie that has momentous implications for the way we think about political history. Beginning from a reflection on the nature of political action in the context of lying, Arendt ultimately enables a rethinking of the very nature of history around the possibility of its political denial.

Keywords:   Hannah Arendt, violence, politics, political history, political action, lying

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