Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction
Chapter 1: Life and Philosophy
a. Without an Umbrella: Rahel Varnhagen and Origins of Totalitarianism
b. Prism of History
Chapter 2: Remembering and the Archive
a. Saving the Life Story
b. Bad Luck and Loss of a Friend
c. The Need to Remember: Story-telling and Collecting
Chapter 3: Holes of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt's Silence
a. Never Going Home Again: K nigsberg
b. Internment at Gurs
Chapter 4: Life and Philosophical Influence
a. Arendt and Jaspers: From Student to Friend
b. Arendt and Heidegger: Ebbs and Flows
c. Jaspers and Heidegger: Friendship Disintegrated
Chapter 5: Arendt's Narrative and Identity
a. We Refugees
b. Jewish Politics and Controversy
c. Identity Politics and Little Rock
Chapter 6: Identity Politics
a. Arendt's Identities
b. Identity and Politics
c. Groups