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ISBN 10: 1783086394 

ISBN 13: 9781783086399

Author: Peter Baehr, Philip Walsh

As recently as 2000, Hannah Arendt was considered an esoteric author within the fields of humanities and social science. Since that time, Arendt has moved from the fringes of intellectual discussion toward its center. A number of developments have driven this reappraisal: the renewed respectability of the concept of totalitarianism; the appearance of post-Nazi/Bolshevik genocidal movements in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East; the reemergence of stateless people; and the revival of interest in civil/classical republicanism as a political alternative to liberalism and socialism. All of these events evoke Arendtian themes. The greater porousness between the humanities and social sciences in recent years, as a result of the impetus toward trans-disciplinary studies, has encouraged academics to move across intellectual borders. Arendt, a wide-ranging thinker with much to say about politics, society, science, history, aesthetics, philosophy and education, is a natural beneficiary of this process.

Extant compendiums of Arendt’s work show a strong bias toward philosophy and political theory. In contrast, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt is written principally by sociologists and authors with a keen interest in sociology and social theory. The result is a genuinely original contribution to Arendt studies. Written with the higher level undergraduate student in mind yet sufficiently challenging to engage readers well versed in her work, the book examines Arendt’s most important books as they bear on modern social theories, issues and disputes. Her key conceptual distinctions – totalitarianism and dictatorship; labor, work, action; power and violence; thinking, willing and judging – are clarified. The controversies in which Arendt was caught up – notably over the ‘banality of evil’ epitomized by Adolf Eichmann – are explained. The result enables students to grasp a fully rounded understanding of Arendt’s contribution to social inquiry. Written by a distinguished group of international scholars, the clear descriptions and stimulating interpretations of The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt bring Arendt’s work into the forefront of sociological discussion.

Table of contents:

Part I Books
Chapter 1 Arendt and Totalitarianism
Introduction
Totalitarianism between the Political and the Social
The Book
Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism
Classlessness
Organization
Ideology
The camps
Criticisms
Totalitarianism Today
References

Chapter 2 The Human Condition and The Theory of Action
Action and Praxis
The sociological approach to action
Aristotle’s conception
Action and politics
Arendt’s Projects
Return to the Greeks and to Kant
The subject
Action, Labor and Work
What is action?
Action and consequences
The division
The Social and the Political
The social versus the political
Political action
Freedom and influence
History and Life
The futility of life
The polis and history
Rise of animal laborans
Science and Behavior
Man and himself
Sociology
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 3 Eichmann in Jerusalem: Heuristic Myth and Social Science
Occasion and Sources
Black Comedy: A Question of Tone
Dual Foci
Competing Portraits and Narratives
Arendt before Jerusalem
Ambiguity and Renown
Anti-Semite? Sadist? Helpless Cog?
A Compelling Fiction
Thinking about Thinking
No Time to Think: Common Processes, Different Outcomes
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 4 “The Perplexities of Beginning”: Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Revolution
Introduction
1963: The Most Creative Period in Arendt’s Career
Arendt’s Concepts of Modernity and Revolution
Three Key Themes in On Revolution
Philosophy versus sociology
The American versus the French Revolution
The perplexities of beginning
Anti-intellectual Receptions of an Antisocial Text
Arendt and the Civil Rights Movement
Note
References

Chapter 5 The Life of The Mind of Hannah Arendt
What’s in the Book
Some More on the Life of the Mind
Notes
References

Part II Selected Themes
Chapter 6 Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Personhood and Meaning
Introduction
Thinking and Morality
What Is Thinking?
What Makes Us Think?
Sociological Theories of Thinking and Reflexivity
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 7 Explaining Genocide: Hannah Arendt and The Social-Scientific Concept of Dehumanization
Making Human Beings, as Human Beings, Superfluous: Hannah Arendt and the Elements of Dehumanization
Overcoming Moral Restraints: Hannah Arendt and the Sociology of Dehumanization
Overcoming Empathy: Hannah Arendt and the Social Psychology of Dehumanization
A Critique of Empathy: Hannah Arendt and the Impersonal Imagination
Conclusion: Empathy and Explanation
References

Chapter 8 Arendt on Power and Violence

1. Regarding Method: Spectators, Phenomenology and Worldliness

2. Makers’ Violence, Actors’ Power and Their Place in the World

3. Concerning Some Current Ideas of “Power”
    3.1 Habermas and the normative use of empirical diagnoses
    3.2 Lukes and the debate on “power” in the social sciences

4. Conclusion
   Notes
   References

Chapter 9 The Theory of Totalitarian Leadership
Introduction
Masses
Fascination without Charisma
What Do Totalitarian Leaders Do?
Mechanisms of Movement
Indispensable-Dispensable Leaders
Hannah Arendt and Covert Sociology
Notes
References

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