文档介绍：Politics, Philosophy, Terror
Politics, Philosophy, Terror
ESSAYS ON THE THOUGHT OF
HANNAH ARENDT
Dana R. Villa
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Copyright 1999 by Princeton University Press
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Villa, Dana Richard.
Politics, philosophy, terror : essays on the
thought of Hannah Arendt / by Dana R. Villa.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-691-00934-1 (cloth : alk. paper). —
ISBN 0-691-00935-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Arendt, Hannah—Contributions in political sicence. I. Title
1999
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER ONE
Terror and Radical Evil 11
CHAPTER TWO
Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a
Representative Perpetrator 39
CHAPTER THREE
The Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt’s Relationship
to Heidegger 61
CHAPTER FOUR
Thinking and Judging 87
CHAPTER FIVE
Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the
Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory 107
CHAPTER SIX
Theatricality and the Public Realm 128
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss,
and Socrates 155
CHAPTER EIGHT
Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition 180
CHAPTER NINE
Arendt and Socrates 204
Abbreviations 219
Notes 221
Index 261
Acknowledgments
I AM QUITE grateful to two institutions and the people who make
them so friendly to scholars. First, I wrote many of these essays at
the Center for European Studies at H