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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022631149X
ISBN-13
9780226311494
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038303781
Product Key Features
Book Title
Arendt and America
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Philosophers, United States / 20th Century, Individual Philosophers, Political
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
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0.1 in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
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0.9 in
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0.6 in
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LCCN
2015-011456
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A major work of scholarship and a truly original and path-breaking way of looking at Arendt and her work. King situates Arendt in an American context in which she is rarely considered, and he draws on his deep knowledge of US intellectual, political, and social history as well as German philosophy to create a book that is one of the most original and important works on Arendt to have been written in many years., "King's great contribution to the literature on Arendt is to show, in fine-grained terms, how her political theory was the result of a quintessentially American experience: to arrive on American shores an immigrant, to draw on resources from both an old country and a new, imagined one, and to participate in the riot of reinvention." , "In his latest book, Arendt And America , King argues that living in the United States allowed the German philosopher to think far beyond the simple dichotomies of political divisions -- such as left and right -- that led to the endless slaughter and complete break down of the European social order, before and during World War II. . . . King's argument is certainly a persuasive one. And it's pretty inconceivable that Arendt would have been able to write about totalitarianism (or anti-Semitism) in the same vein, had she not been both physically and spiritually distanced from Europe." , This remarkably erudite and elegantly written book explains what happened when Hannah met America. King ushers us into the cultural and intellectual milieu of post-WWII New York and invites us to listen in on conversations between some of the leading intellectuals of the time. Arendt--uncompromising, relentlessly thoughtful, and downright difficult to the last--comes across as one of the great interpreters of modernity in all its tragic complexity. Forty years after her death, her thinking continues to enlighten the dark corners of our human condition., King's great contribution to the literature on Arendt is to show, in fine-grained terms, how her political theory was the result of a quintessentially American experience: to arrive on American shores an immigrant, to draw on resources from both an old country and a new, imagined one, and to participate in the riot of reinvention., A major work of scholarship and a truly original and pathbreaking way of looking at Arendt and her work. King situates Arendt in an American context in which she is rarely considered, and he draws on his deep knowledge of U.S. intellectual, political, and social history as well as German philosophy to create a book that is one of the most original and important works on Arendt to have been written in many years., This remarkably erudite and elegantly written book explains what happened when Hannah met America. King ushers us into the cultural and intellectual milieu of post-WWII New York and invites us to listen in on conversations between some of the leading intellectuals of the time. Arendt--uncompromising, relentlessly thoughtful and downright difficult to the last--comes across as one of the great interpreters of modernity in all its tragic complexity. Forty years after her death, her thinking continues to enlighten the dark corners of our human condition., In his latest book, Arendt And America , King argues that living in the United States allowed the German philosopher to think far beyond the simple dichotomies of political divisions -- such as left and right -- that led to the endless slaughter and complete break down of the European social order, before and during World War II. . . . King's argument is certainly a persuasive one. And it's pretty inconceivable that Arendt would have been able to write about totalitarianism (or anti-Semitism) in the same vein, had she not been both physically and spiritually distanced from Europe., "This book offers a detailed history of Arendt's intellectual milieu in the United States, moving between her published writings, reviews and correspondence with her key interlocutors. . . . This is a concentrated, slow-burning book that requires careful reading, but is without question a rewarding theoretical and historical contribution." , Among political theorists, there is no shortage of commentary on Hannah Arendt's work. However, in examining the influence of the US on Arendt's thought, King has developed a novel contribution to this literature. Like many books on Arendt, Arendt in America describes the debates that emerged regarding Arendt's major political works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism , her writings on race (especially her essay on Little Rock), On Revolution , and Eichmann in Jerusalem . King situates Arendt's position and the debates about it in a specifically American context, showing the ways in which her experience in the US, and with American political thought, influenced her thinking about politics. Her 'philosophical' work, most notably The Human Condition and her writings on Kant, do not receive the same level of attention as her more explicitly political writings. Moreover, some critical assessments of the controversies her writing produced receive an overly perfunctory treatment. However, Arendt in America fills an important gap in current scholarship. Well written and well researched, it offers a unique discussion of Arendt's importance, including her contributions to republican theory, the nature of evil, and questions of modernity. Recommended., "Among political theorists, there is no shortage of commentary on Hannah Arendt's work. However, in examining the influence of the US on Arendt's thought, King has developed a novel contribution to this literature. Like many books on Arendt, Arendt in America describes the debates that emerged regarding Arendt's major political works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism , her writings on race (especially her essay on Little Rock), On Revolution , and Eichmann in Jerusalem . King situates Arendt's position and the debates about it in a specifically American context, showing the ways in which her experience in the US, and with American political thought, influenced her thinking about politics. Her 'philosophical' work, most notably The Human Condition and her writings on Kant, do not receive the same level of attention as her more explicitly political writings. Moreover, some critical assessments of the controversies her writing produced receive an overly perfunctory treatment. However, Arendt in America fills an important gap in current scholarship. Well written and well researched, it offers a unique discussion of Arendt's importance, including her contributions to republican theory, the nature of evil, and questions of modernity. Recommended." , This book offers a detailed history of Arendt's intellectual milieu in the United States, moving between her published writings, reviews and correspondence with her key interlocutors. . . . This is a concentrated, slow-burning book that requires careful reading, but is without question a rewarding theoretical and historical contribution.
Dewey Decimal
320.5
Table Of Content
Introduction: Hannah Arendt's World 1 Guilt and Responsibility 2 The Origins of Totalitarianism in America 3 Rediscovering the World 4 Arendt, Tocqueville, and Cold War America 5 Arendt, Riesman, and America as Mass Society 6 Arendt and Postwar American Thought 7 Reflections/Refractions of Race, 1945-1955 8 Arendt, the Schools, and Civil Rights 9 The Eichmann Case 10 Against the Liberal Grain 11 The Revolutionary Traditions 12 The Crises of Arendt's Republic Conclusion--Once More: The Film, Eichmann, and Evil Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
Books about Hannah Arendt abound; but there are none that deal with Arendt's 30-year time in America, at least not until now. Richard King's study of Arendt and America will be quick to establish itself as one of the most significant publications in intellectual history in recent years. Arendt's major works--The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution--were written in America. King tells us how Arendt came to America in 1941, at the midpoint of her life, rising to prominence among American intellectuals, and what it is she brought with her by way of intellectual and cultural equipment. We get a fully fleshed portrait of Arendt's position among the New York intellectual of the post-War/Cold War world, and King looks closely at Arendt's sharply framed responses to the political upheavals of the 1960s. By no means does King elide the great controversy over Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), her major claim to fame, its notoriety still very much alive today. Arendt focused on Eichmann's use of language and how that affected the working of his conscience. (King also take up the Eichmann affair in the book's conclusion, where he discusses the feature film, Hannah Arendt (2012), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, and the recent book by Bettina Stangneth on Eichmann arguing against the "banality of evil" notion of Arendt, and in favor of finding Eichmann to be an anti-Semite who played a key role in organizing the Holocaust.) King maintains that Arendt's experience in America shaped what she thought and wrote. The pivot of that experience is found in Arendt's ambivalence about America--the tension between the idea of the "republic" as formulated by the Framers, and the threat to this idea posed by mass consumer society, particularly after 1945. In the end, the book as a whole is a mediation on the question of whether Arendt ever became an American rather than German thinker. Her major contribution to American intellectual history and political thought was an American version of republicanism; her great worry was that this republic would be lost., German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution . Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly considered the influence of America on her thought--until now. In Arendt and America , historian Richard H. King argues that while all of Arendt's work was haunted by her experience of totalitarianism, it was only in her adopted homeland that she was able to formulate the idea of the modern republic as an alternative to totalitarian rule. Situating Arendt within the context of U.S. intellectual, political, and social history, King reveals how Arendt developed a fascination with the political thought of the Founding Fathers. King also re-creates her intellectual exchanges with American friends and colleagues, such as Dwight Macdonald and Mary McCarthy, and shows how her lively correspondence with sociologist David Riesman helped her understand modern American culture and society. In the last section of Arendt and America , King sets out the context in which the Eichmann controversy took place and follows the debate about "the banality of evil" that has continued ever since. As King shows, Arendt's work, regardless of focus, was shaped by postwar American thought, culture, and politics, including the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. For Arendt, the United States was much more than a refuge from Nazi Germany; it was a stimulus to rethink the political, ethical, and historical traditions of human culture. This authoritative combination of intellectual history and biography offers a unique approach for thinking about the influence of America on Arendt's ideas and also the effect of her ideas on American thought.
LC Classification Number
JC251.A74K56 2015
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