{"product_id":"9780745665702","title":"Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Hannah Arendt (1906­1975) was one of the most original and  interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new  interpretation of her career, philosopher Richard Bernstein situates  Arendt historically as an engaged Jewish intellectual and explores the  range of her thinking from the perspective of her continuing  confrontation with \"the Jewish question.\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Bernstein argues that many themes that emerged in the course of  Arendt's attempts to understand specifically Jewish issues shaped  her thinking about politics in general and the life of the mind. By  exploring pivotal events of her life story ­ her arrest and  subsequent emigration from Germany in 1933, her precarious existence  in Paris as a stateless Jew working for Zionist organizations, her  internment at Gurs and her subsequent escape, and finally her flight  from Europe in 1941 ­ he shows how personal experiences and her  responses to them oriented her thinking.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Arendt's analysis of the Jews' lack of preparation for the  vicious political antiSemitism that arose in the last decade of the  nineteenth century, Bernstein argues, led her on a quest for the  ultimate meaning of politics and political responsibility. Moreover,  he points out that Arendt's deepest insights about politics emerged  from her reflections on statelessness and totalitarian  domination. Bernstein also examines Arendt's attraction to and  break with Zionism, and the reasons for her critical stance toward a  Jewish sovereign state. He then turns to the issue that, in  Arendt's opinion, needed most to be confronted in the aftermath of  World War II: the fundamental nature of evil. He traces the nuances of  her thinking from \"radical evil\" to \"the banality of evil\"  and, finally, reexamines \u003cem\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e, her  meditation on evil that caused a storm of protest and led some to  question her loyalty to the Jewish people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46461224321265,"sku":"9780745665702","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780745665702_p0.jpg?v=1765544911","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745665702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}