Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Old “New Science”

Chapters in this book

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