LEADER 05014nam 22006734a 450 001 9910450296203321 005 20210604000454.0 010 $a1-4008-0827-8 010 $a1-4008-1374-3 010 $a1-282-75376-2 010 $a9786612753763 010 $a1-4008-2316-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823161 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006227 035 $a(EBL)617312 035 $a(OCoLC)705527079 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000282975 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282975 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10341501 035 $a(PQKB)10774704 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617312 035 $a(OCoLC)51444010 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41456 035 $a(DE-B1597)446158 035 $a(OCoLC)979741672 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823161 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031914 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275376 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006227 100 $a19990219d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitics, philosophy, terror$b[electronic resource] $eessays on the thought of Hannah Arendt /$fby Dana R. Villa 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00934-1 311 0 $a0-691-00935-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-260) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tCHAPTER ONE. Terror and Radical Evil --$tCHAPTER TWO. Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a Representative Perpetrator --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt's Relationship to Heidegger --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Thinking and Judging --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory --$tCHAPTER SIX. Theatricality and the Public Realm --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition --$tCHAPTER NINE. Arendt and Socrates --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil--inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann--does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above all to reinforce the totalitarian idea that humans are expendable units, subordinate to the all-determining laws of Nature or History. Villa clarifies the personal and philosophical relationship between Arendt and Heidegger, showing how her work drew on his thought while providing a firm repudiation of Heidegger's political idiocy under the Nazis. Less controversially, but as importantly, Villa also engages with Arendt's ideas about the relationship between political thought and political action. He explores her views about the roles of theatricality, philosophical reflection, and public-spiritedness in political life. And he explores what relationship, if any, Arendt saw between totalitarianism and the "great tradition" of Western political thought. Throughout, Villa shows how Arendt's ideas illuminate contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and democracy and how they deepen our understanding of philosophers ranging from Socrates and Plato to Habermas and Leo Strauss. Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. 676 $a320.5/092 700 $aVilla$b Dana Richard$0873972 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450296203321 996 $aPolitics, philosophy, terror$92464306 997 $aUNINA