Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. CHAPTER ONE. Terror and Radical Evil 11
5. CHAPTER TWO. Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a Representative Perpetrator 39
6. CHAPTER THREE. The Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt’s Relationship to Heidegger 61
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Thinking and Judging 87
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory 107
9. CHAPTER SIX. Theatricality and the Public Realm 128
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates 155
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition 180
12. CHAPTER NINE. Arendt and Socrates 204
13. Abbreviations 219
14. Notes 221
15. Index 261