3. The Temptations of Lying

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Beyond the Academic and Intellectual Worlds 11
5. When Politics Vanishes
6. 1. Dogville – Eight Steps to Hell. A film review 29
7. 2. Phantasies of Omnipotence 41
8. 3. The Temptations of Lying 51
9. 4. “Ice cold”. The Way to Totalitarianism 63
10. 5. Truth and Post-totalitarian Narratives 75
11. The Call of Responsibility
12. 6. Who is Capable of Acting? Some Thoughts on the Importance of Personality 89
13. 7. The Virtù of the Statesman – Willy Brandt 101
14. 8. When Telling the Truth Demands Courage 113
15. 9. Sustainability – The Power of the ‘Unreasonable' 127
16. Images and Emotions
17. 10. Horror and Laughter – Arendt, Tabori, Borowski 151
18. 11. Cause or Intention? Justifying Crime 163
19. 12. Facing War Arendt and Habermas 181
20. Federations
21. 13. Federalism – A Hidden Treasure 197
22. 14. Bridge and Border – Queering Europe 229
23. 15. Rights Without Space – The Existence of a Transnational Minority 243
24. 16. Europe and its Refugees: Arendt on the Politicization of Minorities 255
25. From Plurality to Cosmos
26. 17. Elements of Cosmopolitanism – and its Handicaps 269
27. 18. Desert and Oasis: Arendt Reads Stifter 285
28. 19. Overcoming Inhuman Perspectives on Nature 311
29. 20. The Encounter of republic and cosmos: Arendt and Humboldt 323