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Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism
Moral Equivalence and Degrees of Evil in Modern Political Violence
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Richard Shorten
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
- Introduction 1
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PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM
- Chapter 1 Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought 21
- Chapter 2 Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism 38
- Chapter 3 When the Real Crime Began 54
- Chapter 4 Race and Bureaucracy Revisited 68
- Chapter 5 On Pain of Extinction 87
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PART II: NATION AND RACE
- Chapter 6 The Refractory Legacy of Algerian Decolonization 109
- Chapter 7 Anti-Semitism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Self-Destruction of the Nation-State 130
- Chapter 8 Post-Totalitarian Elements and Eichmann’s Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings 147
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PART III: INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES
- Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism 173
- Chapter 10 Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Violence 191
- Chapter 11 The “Subterranean Stream of Western History” 205
- Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Old “New Science” 217
- Chapter 13 The Holocaust and “The Human” 232
- Conclusion. Arendt between Past and Future 250
- Select Bibliography 262
- Contributors 271
- Index 275
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
- Introduction 1
-
PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM
- Chapter 1 Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought 21
- Chapter 2 Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism 38
- Chapter 3 When the Real Crime Began 54
- Chapter 4 Race and Bureaucracy Revisited 68
- Chapter 5 On Pain of Extinction 87
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PART II: NATION AND RACE
- Chapter 6 The Refractory Legacy of Algerian Decolonization 109
- Chapter 7 Anti-Semitism, the Bourgeoisie, and the Self-Destruction of the Nation-State 130
- Chapter 8 Post-Totalitarian Elements and Eichmann’s Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings 147
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PART III: INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES
- Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism 173
- Chapter 10 Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Violence 191
- Chapter 11 The “Subterranean Stream of Western History” 205
- Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Old “New Science” 217
- Chapter 13 The Holocaust and “The Human” 232
- Conclusion. Arendt between Past and Future 250
- Select Bibliography 262
- Contributors 271
- Index 275