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Adorno’s Notes to Literature Ulrich Plass Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity A Phenomenology of Human Rights Serena Parekh New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including pho- tocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parekh, Serena, 1974- Hannah Arendt and the challenge of modernity : a phenomenology of human rights / by Serena Parekh. p. cm. — (Studies in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96108-0 (hbk) ISBN-10: 0-415-96108-4 (hbk) 1. Arendt, Hannah, 1906–1975—Political and social views. 2. Human rights. I. Title. JC251.A74P35 2008 323.01—dc22 2007044912 ISBN 0-203-92781-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-96108-4 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-92781-8 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-96108-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-92781-6 (ebk) To Edward McGushin All that which is mysteriously given us by birth and which includes the shape of our bodies and the talents of our minds, can be adequately dealt with only by the unpredictable hazards of friendship and sympathy, or by the great and incalculable grace of love, which says with Augustine, “Volo ut sis (I want you to be),” without being able to give any particu- lar reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation. Origins of Totalitarianism 301 Contents Abbreviations ix Permissions xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction The Groundlessness of Modernity 1 Chapter One The Paradox of Human Rights 11 Chapter Two Human Dignity and the Ethos of Modernity 42 Chapter Three The Common World 67 Chapter Four Two Realms of Existence 93 Chapter Five The Foundations of Human Rights 121 Chapter Six Conscience, Morality, and Judgment 150 Concluding Remarks 164 vii viii Contents Notes 173 Bibliography 211 Index 217 Abbreviations BPF Between Past and Future BT The Burden of Our Time (the first British edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism) CR Crisis of the Republic EU Essays in Understanding HC The Human Condition JP The Jew as Pariah LKPP Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy LMT Life of the Mind—Thinking LMW Life of the Mind—Willing MDT Men in Dark Times OR On Revolution OT The Origins of Totalitarianism PP “Philosophy and Politics” PRPI “Public Rights and Private Interests” QP Qu’est-ce que la politique? RJ Responsibility and Judgment ix
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