Hannah Arendt and the uses of history : imperialism, nation, race, and genocide /: imperialism, nation, race, and genocide. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard H. King and Dan Stone.
• Other Names: King, Richard H; Stone, Dan, 1971-
• Contents: Introduction / Richard H. King and Dan Stone -- Imperialism and colonialism -- Race power, freedom, and the democracy of terror in German racialist thought / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- Race thinking and racism in Hannah Arendt's The origins of totalitarianism / Kathryn T. Gines -- When the real crime began : Hannah Arendt's The origins of totalitarianism and the dignity of the western philosophical tradition / Robert Bernasconi -- Race and bureaucracy revisited : Hannah Arendt's recent reemergence in African studies / Christopher J. Lee -- On pain of extinction : laws of nature and history in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt / Tony Barta -- Nation and race -- The refractory legacy of Algerian decolonization : revisiting Arendt on violence / Ned Curthoys -- Anti-semitism, the bourgeoisie, and the self-destruction of the nation-state / Marcel Stoetzler -- Post-totalitarian elements and Eichmann's mentality in the Yugoslav War and mass killings / Vlasta Jalušič -- Intellectual genealogies and legacies -- Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism : moral equivalence and degrees of evil in modern political violence / Richard Shorten -- Hannah Arendt, biopolitics, and the problem of violence : from animal laborans to homo sacer / André Duarte -- The 'subterranean stream of Western history' : Arendt and Levinas after Heidegger / Robert Eaglestone -- Hannah Arendt and the old 'new science' / Steven Douglas Maloney -- The Holocaust and 'the human' / Dan Stone -- Conclusion : Arendt between past and future / Richard H. King.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 282 pages)
• Subjects: 320.53; Totalitarianism; Racism; Imperialism; Political violence; Genocide; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; HISTORY -- General; Genocide; Imperialism; Political violence; Racism; Totalitarianism; Totalitarisme; Imperialisme; Rassendiscriminatie; Völkermord; Nation; Imperialismus; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455444; 0857455443; 1322058695; 9781322058696
• Related ISBNs: 9781845455897; 1845455894
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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