qi [alee 609-AAZ-489 Bowling Green State University Libraries and Learning Resources Donated by: Richard Lineback em Hannah Arendt Twenty Years Later Ay Hannah Arendt Twenty Years Later edited by Larry May and Jerome Kohn The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England SusWLING GREEN STAT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ©1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any elec- tronic or mechanical means (including photocopying recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Baskerville by Asco Trade Typesetting Ltd., Hong Kong and printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hannah Arendt : twenty years later / edited by Larry May and Jerome Kohn. p- cm. — (Studies in contemporary German social thought) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-13319-9 (hc : alk. paper) 1. Arendt, Hannah—Contributions in political science. 2. Arendt, Hannah. I. May, Larry. II. Kohn, Jerome. III. Series. JC251.A74H39 1996 320.5'092—dc20 95-51067 CIP SSS — eS i et Contents vil BY Contributors l Introduction {oI Political Action and Judgment + za 9 1 Hannah Arendt as a Conservative Thinker 11 Ve Margaret Canovan 9 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine va 33 of Reason Albrecht Wellmer 3 The Moral Costs of Political Pluralism: The Dilemmas of Difference and Equality in Arendt’s “Reflections on oy 53.V ‘Little Rock” Fames Bohman faribineteadiheNataccofiEvilen. Of. 81 om . 4 Socialization and Institutional Evil JS Larry May 107 5 The Commodification of Values Elizabeth M. Meade ; 6 Did Hannah Arendt Change Her Mind?: From Radical 127 va Evil to the Banality of Evil Richard J. Bernstein vi Contents 7 Evil and Plurality: Hannah Arendt’s Way to The Life of 147/ the Mind, I Jerome Kohn 8 The Banality of Philosophy: Arendt on Heidegger and Eichmann 179 he Dana R. Villa 197 Gut III Self and World 199 \ 9 Thinking about the Self Suzanne Duvall Facobitti 10 Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Trial of (Post)| Modernity or the Tale of Two Revolutions David Ingram 11 The Political Dimension of the Public World: On Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Martin Heidegger Feffrey Andrew Barash 12 Love and Worldliness: Hannah Arendt’s Reading of Saint Augustine Ronald Beiner IV Gender and Jewishness 13 Women in Dark Times: Rahel Varnhagen, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Me Bat-Ami Bar On 14 Hannah Arendt among Feminists Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 15 Ethics in Many Different Voices Annette C. Baier Appendix: A Bibliography of Writings in English about Hannah Arendt Johann A. Klaassen and Angela Klaassen Index