- 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
Lying and History
Lying and History
- Chapter:
- (p.79) Lying and History
- Source:
- Thinking in Dark Times
- Author(s):
Cathy Caruth
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
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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- 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