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This collection of essays brings Arendt's work into dialogue with contemporary philosophical views.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most important political philosophers of our century. Born in Germany, Arendt studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. She escaped after the Nazis came to power; remained stateless until 1951, when she became a U.S. citizen; was the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton; and became a prominent public intellectual whose positions were often controversial. Her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Human Condition, and The Life of the Mind (unfinished at her death). Now, twenty years later, this collection of fifteen essays brings her work into dialogue with those philosophical views that are at center stage today--in critical theory, communitarianism, virtue theory, and feminism. The essays are divided into four sections: Political Action and Judgment; Ethics and the Nature of Evil; Self and World; and Gender and Jewishness. An extensive bibliography of work on Arendt in English is included as an appendix.
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David Heeneman
reviewed Hannah Arendt on October 13, 2008
Hannah Arendt
Copyright Journal of Women's History, Indiana University Press Autumn 1998
Larry May and Jerome Kohn, eds. Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. viii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-262-13319-9 (cl); 0-26263182-2 (pb).
In their new volume, May and Kohn present essays by fifteen authors reassessing many of Arendt's most pivotal and provocative writings. The contributors go beyond merely reexamining Arendt's positions with the aid of hindsight to probe current debates concerning issues of political philosophy, ethics, identity, and modernity. The first section (three essays) examines Arendt's views on political action, radicalism, pluralism, and reason. The next section (five essays) investigates her writings on ethics and "the banality of evil." The third section (four essays) considers Arendt's understanding of the relationship between the self and humanity. Finally, the last section (three essays) analyzes her conception of gender and identity, in particular as it intersects with religious identity, and the relationship between her positions and more recent feminist scholarship. Together these essays underscore the ongoing relevance and importance of Arendt's writings for scholars across the disciplines.
Michelle Mouton
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