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Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

EDITED BY Steven E. Aschheim

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • Contents

Preface Steven Aschheim ix

Introduction: in Jerusalem Steven Aschheim i

HANNAH ARENDT: AND PHILOSOPHY

Hannah Arendt on Tradition and New Beginnings Agnes Heller 19

Hannah Arendt on Albrecht Wellmer 3 3

The Arendt Cult: Hannah Arendt as Political Commentator Walter Laqueur 47

Theodicy in Jerusalem Susan Neiman 65 THE ORIGINS OF RECONSIDERED

Arendt and The Origins of Totalitarianism: An Anglocentric View Bernard Crick 93

Hannah Arendt on the Totalitarian Sublime and Its Promise of Freedom Michael Halberstam 105

Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition Dana R. Villa 124

HANNAH ARENDT AND JEWISHNESS: IDENTITY, HISTORY, AND

In Search of the Mother Tongue: Hannah Arendt's German-Jewish Literature Liliane Weissberg 149

Binationalism and Jewish Identity: Hannah Arendt and the Question of Palestine Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 165

Hannah Arendt, the Early "Post-Zionist" Moshe Zimmermann 181

Hannah Arendt's Zionism? Richard J. Bernstein 194

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Justice and History Michael R. Marrus • 205

Malicious Clerks: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Yaacov Lozowick 214 Hannah Arendt's Interpretation of as a Challenge to Human Existence: The Background ' 224

Between Justice and Politics: The Competition of Storytellers in the Eichmann Trial Leora Bilsky 232

A Generation's Response to Eichmann in Jerusalem Richard 1. Cohen 253

ARENDT AND GERMAN CULTURE

Love and Bildung for Hannah Arendt Gabriel Motzkin 281

German as Pariah, Jew as Pariah: Hannah Arendt and Anson Rabinbach 292

The Grammar of Prudence: Arendt, Jaspers, and the v Appraisal of Max Weber Peter Baehr 306

Apologist or Critic? On Arendt's Relation to Heidegger Dana R. Villa 325

Hannah Arendt and : History and Metahistory

Annette Vowinckel 338

Notes , 347

List of Contributors 421

Index • 425