Villa Politics, Philosophy, Terror

Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt
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Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Villa, Dana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION 3

CHAPTER ONE Terror and Radical Evil 11

CHAPTER Two Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a Representative Perpetrator 39

CHAPTER THREE The Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt's Relationship to Heidegger 61

CHAPTER FOUR Thinking and Judging 87

CHAPTER FIVE Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory 107

CHAPTER SIX Theatricality and the Public Realm 128

CHAPTER SEVEN The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates 155

CHAPTER EIGHT Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition 180

CHAPTER NINE Arendt and Socrates 204

Abbreviations 219

Notes 221

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Dana R. Villa is the author of Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (Princeton) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. He teaches political theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.