Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem EDITED BY Steven E. Aschheim UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • London Contents Preface Steven Aschheim ix Introduction: Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem Steven Aschheim i HANNAH ARENDT: POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY Hannah Arendt on Tradition and New Beginnings Agnes Heller 19 Hannah Arendt on Revolution Albrecht Wellmer 3 3 The Arendt Cult: Hannah Arendt as Political Commentator Walter Laqueur 47 Theodicy in Jerusalem Susan Neiman 65 THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM 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 ZIONISM 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 Evil Yaacov Lozowick 214 Hannah Arendt's Interpretation of the Holocaust as a Challenge to Human Existence: The Intellectual Background Hans Mommsen' 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 Karl Jaspers 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 Martin Heidegger: History and Metahistory Annette Vowinckel 338 Notes , 347 List of Contributors 421 Index • 425.