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...Charles F. Delzell Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism . By Whitfield Stephen J. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1980 . Pp. xii , 338 . $18.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOKS Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism...

... overestimates our ability to answer the question, who are the real political animals? Through a reading of Hannah Arendt's critique of human rights, the essay argues that the traditional assumption that political status is available only to human beings relies on the totalizing power of metaphor to confuse...

...Ruba Salih Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are often described as living in a condition of waithood, suspended from law and awaiting return to their national homeland, where they will finally turn into qualified political lives. This frame, stemming from Hannah Arendt’s legacy, fetishizes rights...

... times, it is the mild liberal-consumerist “join the revolution” discourse put forward by green capitalist ventures. In both cases it raises the question of what is meant by revolution , a term that Arendt observed has both radical and conservative valences. As we contemplate revolutionary solarity...

... elsewhere, but it always carries echoes of Hegel’s tripartite distinction between the family, civil society, and the state. Hannah Arendt, another theorist of the dichotomy between the social and the political, was also aware of this precedent and articulated the relation- ship in very similar terms...

... of the influence of two thinkers above all: Derrida within literary circles, and in the social sciences and political theory, the United States–inflected, demotic Heideggerianism of Hannah Arendt. Heidegger’s famous shift in philosophy from epistemology to ontology has through various mediations...

... as such. That polemical statement had first been made by Edmund Burke against 1 the French Revolution. And it had been revived in a significant way by Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism included a chapter devoted to the ‘‘Perplexities of the Rights of Man In that chapter, Arendt equated...

... but as private rights. His diagnosis proved disastrously correct and, in fact, a little less than a hundred years later, had to be sharpened by Hannah Arendt. Accord- ing to her findings, anyone who is stateless is also without rights. This is not only due to the lack of a universally binding institution...

... Thinking One of the earliest and lasting influential attempts to account historically and theoretically for the concept of racism in the aftermath of the Holo- caust is provided by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism.29 This established the paradigm in which the problem of racism would...

.... Whitfield s initial chapter traces the evolution of the controversial term, totalitarianism. He follows this with a concise analysis of the similarities and differences between the theory and practice of totali­ tarianism in Nazi Germany and in Stalinist Russia. He is quick to point out that Arendt...

... forms of sociality. It’s no accident that Hannah Arendt ended her magisterial The Origins of Totalitarianism with a discussion of terror and ideology that pivots on the feelings of loneliness. In this discussion, she makes clear that totali- tarianism, which relies on creating new...

... spontaneity conspiracy Russian Revolution Lenin Rosa Luxemburg References Arendt Hannah . 1958 . “ Totalitarian Imperialism: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution ”. Journal of Politics 20 , no. 1 : 5 – 43 . Arendt Hannah . [1963] 1990 . On Revolution . New York...

... and Hannah Arendt (among others), believed that such a philosophy needs to be built on a kind of radical pluralism founded on an understanding of equality that does not confuse it with sameness. They understood equality as the essential political guaran­ tor of difference egalitarian difference...

... of freedom and virtue (cf. Weeks 2013, pace Arendt 1993, 1998, 2006). Such powerful organizing sche- mas do little, however, to reconcile the intersections and overlaps between private and public domains, schemas much in need of disruption. Beyond the formal domain—in spheres of affective labor...

... Protests–A Preliminary Analysis .” Review of African Political Economy 37 , no. 123 : 25 – 40 . Arendt Hannah . 2013 . Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations . Brooklyn : Melville House . Bond P . 2006 . Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated...

..., this tension already was legible in the era of the French Revolution, but it receives its most elabo- rate and influential treatment in Hannah Arendt’s famous discussion of the paradoxical and aporetic character of human rights in The Origins of Totalitarianism. In a chapter entitled ‘‘The Decline...

... then be sustained by the ex­ changing of letters. This correspondence between friends is one of the great objectivations of true friendship, as we can tell from one highly interesting twentieth-century example: the letters exchanged by the nov­ elist Mary McCarthy and the philosopher Hannah Arendt.7 In the course...

...Fred Moten; Wu Tsang “Sudden Rise at a Given Tune” is the textual component of an eponymous performance by Wu Tsang and Fred Moten given at the Tate Modern, London, March 25, 2017. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 wildness performance References Arendt Hannah...

... Press 2015 BDS international law Israel Palestine social contract References Arendt Hannah . 2000 . “A ‘Daughter of Our People’: A Response to Gershom Scholem.” In The Portable Hannah Arendt , edited by Baehr Peter , 391 – 96 . New York : Penguin . Bianchi...

... 2015 1948 BDS citizen-perpetrator human rights References Arendt Hannah . 2006 . Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil . New York : Penguin . Palestinian BDS National Committee . 2005 . “Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS.” BDS Movement: Freedom...