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HANNAH ARENDT

Critical Assessments ofLeading Political Philosophers

Edited byGar rath Williams

Volume IIArendt and Political Philosophy

O Routledgeg ^ ^ Taylor &. Francis Croup

LONDON AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS

VOLUME II ARENDT AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

PART 6

Zionism Nationalism and Republicanism 5

19 Hannah Arendt: Jerusalem or America? The foundationof political community 7CRISTINA SANCHEZ MUNOZ

20 Hannah Arendt's way to America 30

WOLFGANG HEUER

PART 7

Rights and States 4321 Is there an Arendtian case for the nation state? 45

MARGARET CANOVAN

22 A new guarantee on earth: human dignity and the politicsof human rights 65JEFFREY C. ISAAC

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PART 8

Democracy 93

23 Arendt and representative democracy 95GEORGE KATEB

24 Oases in the desert: Hannah Arendt on democratic politics 130JEFFREY C. ISAAC

25 Hannah Arendt: democracy and the political 155SHELDON S. WOLIN

PART 9

Revolution 171

26 Hannah Arendt on revolution 173E. J. HOBSBAWN

27 The pathos of novelty: Hannah Arendt's image of freedomin the modern world 180JAMES MILLER

28 Declarations of independence: Arendt and Derrida on theproblem of founding a republic 202

BONNIE HONIG

PART 10

Controversies: Little Rock and Eichmann in Jerusalem 22529 American dilemmas, European experiences 227

RICHARD H. KING

30 Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann trial 244HANS MOMMSEN

31 Between justice and politics: the competition of storytellersin the Eichmann trial 273LEORA BILSKY

32 Eichmann in Jerusalem: an interview with Peter Wysson the book by Hannah Arendt 299KARL JASPERS

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33 Crimes against humanity: Hannah Arendt and theNuremburg debates 308

ROBERT FINE

PART 11

Feminist Reflections 32934 Excerpts from 'Conditions for work': the common

world of women 331ADRIENNE RICH

35 The feminism of Hannah Arendt 337ANN M. LANE

36 Hannah Arendt: feminini generis 348URSULA LUDZ

37 Toward an agonistic feminism: Hannah Arendt and thepolitics of identity 358BONNIE HONIG

38 Refiguring the Jewish question: Arendt, Proust, and thepolitics of sexuality 385MORRIS B. KAPLAN

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