Hannah Arendt and the uses of history : imperialism, nation, race, and genocide / edited by Richard King and Dan Stone.

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Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Richard H. King and Dan Stone
  • Imperialism and colonialism
  • Race power, freedom, and the democracy of terror in German racialist thought / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
  • Race thinking and racism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism / Kathryn T. Gines
  • When the real crime began : Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism and the dignity of the western philosophical tradition / Robert Bernasconi
  • Race and bureaucracy revisited : Hannah Arendt's recent reemergence in African studies / Christopher J. Lee
  • On pain of extinction : laws of nature and history in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt / Tony Barta
  • Nation and race
  • The refractory legacy of decolonization : revisiting Arendt on violence / Ned Curthoys
  • Anti-semitism, the bourgeoisie, and the self-destruction of the nation-state / Marcel Stoetzler
  • Post-totalitarian elements and Eichmann's mentality in the Yugoslav War and mass killings / Vlasta Jalušič
  • Intellectual genealogies and legacies
  • Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism : moral equivalence and degrees of evil in modern political violence / Richard Shorten
  • Hannah Arendt, biopolitics, and the problem of violence : from animal laborans to homo sacer / André Duarte
  • The 'subterranean stream of Western history' : Arendt and Levinas after Heidegger / Robert Eaglestone
  • Hannah Arendt and the old 'new science' / Steven Douglas Maloney
  • The Holocaust and 'the human' / Dan Stone
  • Conclusion : "Arendt between past and future" / Richard H. King.