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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History : Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide / ed. by Dan Stone, Richard H. King.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845453619
  • 9780857455444
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  • 320.53 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM -- Chapter 1 Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought -- Chapter 2 Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Chapter 3 When the Real Crime Began -- Chapter 4 Race and Bureaucracy Revisited -- Chapter 5 On Pain of Extinction -- PART II: NATION AND RACE -- Chapter 6 The Refractory Legacy of Algerian Decolonization -- Chapter 7 Anti-Semitism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Self-Destruction of the Nation-State -- Chapter 8 Post-Totalitarian Elements and Eichmann’s Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings -- PART III: INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES -- Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism -- Chapter 10 Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Violence -- Chapter 11 The “Subterranean Stream of Western History” -- Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Old “New Science” -- Chapter 13 The Holocaust and “The Human” -- Conclusion. Arendt between Past and Future -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as Jürgen Zimmerer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct. This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendt’s opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the jumping-off point for further investigations – including ones critical of Arendt – into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe, and the colonised world.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM -- Chapter 1 Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought -- Chapter 2 Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Chapter 3 When the Real Crime Began -- Chapter 4 Race and Bureaucracy Revisited -- Chapter 5 On Pain of Extinction -- PART II: NATION AND RACE -- Chapter 6 The Refractory Legacy of Algerian Decolonization -- Chapter 7 Anti-Semitism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Self-Destruction of the Nation-State -- Chapter 8 Post-Totalitarian Elements and Eichmann’s Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings -- PART III: INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES -- Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism -- Chapter 10 Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Violence -- Chapter 11 The “Subterranean Stream of Western History” -- Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Old “New Science” -- Chapter 13 The Holocaust and “The Human” -- Conclusion. Arendt between Past and Future -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as Jürgen Zimmerer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct. This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendt’s opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the jumping-off point for further investigations – including ones critical of Arendt – into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe, and the colonised world.

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In English.

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