Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
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- Paperback
440 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2001
Summary
For many years Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) has been the object of intense debate. After her bitter critiques of Zionism, which seemed to nullify her early involvement with that movement, and her extremely controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Arendt became virtually a taboo figure in Israeli and Jewish circles. Challenging the “curse” of her own title, Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem carries the scholarly investigation of this much-discussed writer to the very place where her ide…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520220577 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520220579 |
| Author: | Steven E. Aschheim |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 33mm |
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“It is impressive to see an edited collection in which such a high intellectual standard is maintained throughout…. I learned things from almost every one of these chapters.” - Craig Calhoun, author of Critical Social Theory
About The Author
Steven E. Aschheim
Steven E. Aschheim is Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His previous books include The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990 (California, 1994), Culture and Catastrophe (1996), In Times of Crisis (2000), and Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer (2001).
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