The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt

Herausgeber: Baehr, Peter; Walsh, Philip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt describes and appraises Hannah Arendt's principal works and their bearing on sociology, social thought and the predicaments of modern society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9781783081851
• ISBN-10: 1783081856
• Artikelnr.: 40054204

Autorenporträt

Peter Baehr is professor of social theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences (2010) and the editor of The Portable Hannah Arendt (2002). Philip Walsh is associate professor and chair of sociology at York University, Toronto. He has published articles in the areas of social theory, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge. He is the author of Arendt Contra Sociology: Theory, Society and Its Science (2015) and Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction: Arendt's Critique of the Social Sciences - Peter Baehr and Philip Walsh
Part I. Books
Chapter 1. Arendt and Totalitarianism - Charles Turner
Chapter 2. The Human Condition and the Theory of Action - John Levi Martin
Chapter 3. Eichmann in Jerusalem : Heuristic Myth and Social Science - Judith Adler
Chapter 4. "The Perplexities of Beginning": Hannah Arendt's Theory of Revolution - Daniel Gordon
Chapter 5. The Life of the Mind of Hannah Arendt - Liah Greenfeld
Part II. Selected Themes
Chapter 6. Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Personhood and Meaning - Philip Walsh
Chapter 7. Explaining Genocide: Hannah Arendt and the Social- Scientific Concept of Dehumanization - Johannes Lang
Chapter 8. Arendt on Power and Violence - Guido Parietti
Chapter 9. The Theory of Totalitarian Leadership - Peter Baehr
References
Notes on Contributors
Index.