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Coming out of Hiding: Hannah Arendt on Thinking in Dark Times

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  • Arendt . "Thinking and Moral Considerations," ” . 421 note 4
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 168
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 145
  • Arendt . The Human Condition 283
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 55
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 271
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 56 The phrase comes from Erwin Schrodinger
  • Arendt . The Human Condition 288
  • Arendt . The Human Condition 4
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 78 83
  • Arendt . Origins of Totalitarianism 352
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 45
  • Arendt . "Thinking and Moral Considerations," ” . 388
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 25 85
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 62
  • Arendt . "Thinking and Moral Considerations," ” . 422 – 3 .
  • Arendt . Essays in Understanding 313
  • Canovan , Margaret . 1990 . "Socrates or Heidegger? Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Philosophy and Politics," . Social Research , 57 : 164 – 5 .
  • Arendt . The Human Condition 184
  • Arendt . Essays in Understanding 3
  • Arendt . "Philosophy and Politics," ” . 78 – 9 . The death of Socrates was in a sense the result of his being misunderstood
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times 8
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1971 . "Thinking and Moral Considerations," . Social Research , 38 : 445
  • Jahanbegloo , R. 1992 . Conversations with Isaiah Berlin , 81 – 5 . London : Phoenix . For a condemnation of Arendt's scholarly approach by Isaiah Berlin
  • Young-Bruehl , Elizabeth . 1982 . Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World , 223 – 33 . 286 – 90 . 305 309 – 17 . 337 – 78 . 402 – 6 . 412 – 30 . 471 London : Yale University Press . See also Encounter, January 1964 For accounts of some of the controversies surrounding her political commentaries, see
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1994 . Essays in Understanding , Edited by: Kohn , J. 5 London : Harcourt Brace .
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1978 . The Life of the Mind: Volumei/Thinking , 212 London : Seeker and Warburg .
  • Arendt . Essays in Understanding 2
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 47
  • Arendt . "Thinking and Moral Considerations," ” . 420
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1990 . "Philosophy and Politics," . Social Research , 57 : 98 – 101 .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 44 – 7 . 136 – 8 .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 139 163
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times 10
  • Disch , Lisa . 1993 . "More Truth than Fact: Storytelling as Critical Understanding in the Writings of Hannah Arendt," . Political Theory , 21 : 665 – 94 . In this sense, the story Arendt tells cannot be understood as history. Lisa Disch makes a strong case for the importance of story telling in Arendt's work: See
  • Pitkin , Hanna Fenichel . 1998 . The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social , 277 – 8 . Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press . Although see also
  • Heller , Agnes . 1989 . "Hannah Arendt on the Vita Contemplativa,' " ” . In Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom , Edited by: Kaplan , G. and Kessler , C. London : Alien and Unwin .
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1982 . Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy , Edited by: Beiner , R. 21 Brighton : Harvester .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 46
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1955 . Men in Dark Times , 4 New York : Harcourt Brace .
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1961 . Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought , 148 New York : Viking Press .
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1958 . The Human Condition , 222 London : University of Chicago Press . This is equally reflected in the "pernicious" emphasis upon sovereignty that has pervaded our political thinking. Between Past and Future, 164
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 29 The effects were not instantaneous. The effects of more worldly traditions, which lent a measure of habituation and coherence to life, mediated the fragmentation and uncertainty at the heart of experience. In particular the "Roman trinity" of authority, religion and tradition had such a stabilising effect. However, we can now see that this was unlikely to last, since Roman political culture had "submitted to the authority of Greek thought"
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1958 . The Origins of Totalitarianism , 457 New York : Meridian Books .
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1972 . On Revolution , 98 London : Penguin .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 61 For a discussion of these issues with the relation between Arendt and Heidegger in mind
  • Taminiaux , Jacques . 1997 . The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker: Arendt and Heidegger , Albany, NY : State University of New York Press . chapter 4
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 71 and Between Past and Future, 25
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 88
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 78
  • Beiner , R. "Interpretive Essay," ” . In Arendt, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy 138 – 40 . In some places, Arendt seems to regard reflective judgment as a capacity that belongs in the public realm. Later, however, she places it squarely within the life of the mind. Whilst there is no general utility in supposing a split between Arendt's early and later work, there would seem here to have been a modification in her thinking. The latter view would seem to provide for a clearer account of judgment, even if it makes the relation between judging and acting somewhat more elusive
  • Arendt . Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy 63
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 76
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 193
  • Arendt . "Philosophy and Politics," ” . 87
  • Arendt . 1977 . Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil , Harmondsworth : Penguin .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 167
  • Arendt . Between Past and Future 14
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times 3 – 31 .
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times 195 For a useful discussion of Arendt's historiographical approach, See
  • Benhabib , Seyla . 1996 . The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt , 86 – 95 . London : Sage .
  • Luban , David . 1994 . "Explaining Dark Times," ” . In Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays , Edited by: Hinchman , L. and Hinchman , S. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press .
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times 202
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 110 This, for Arendt, is a further demonstration of the fact that the withdrawal involved in thinking cannot be understood as an escape from the wo rid; its dependence upon language betrays its dependence upon worldly experience. Equally, its dialogic form indicates that, whilst not a worldly activity, thinking may have an impact upon the wo rid. See
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 109
  • Young-Bruehl . For Love of the World 288
  • Sharpe , B. 1999 . Modesty and Arrogance in Judgment: Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem , 88 London : Praeger .
  • Arendt . Men in Dark Times viii
  • Kohler , L. and Saner , H. , eds. 1992 . Hannah Arendt--Karl Jaspers Correspondence , New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich .
  • Arendt . On Revolution 223
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1959 . "Reflections on Little Rock," . Dissent , 6 : 45 – 56 .
  • 1973 . Crises of the Republic , Harmondsworth : Penguin . Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. See also note 1 above
  • Arendt . Essays in Understanding 16
  • Arendt , Hannah . 1979 . "On Hannah Arendt," ” . In Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Public World , Edited by: Hill , M. 333 New York : St Martin's Press .
  • Young-Bruehl . For Love of the World 388
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 168 – 9 .
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 167
  • Young-Bruehl , Elizabeth . "Reflections on The Life of the Mind," ” . In Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays Edited by: Hinchman and Hinchman . 340 – 1 . This also relates to Socrates' lack of interest in confronting problems of evil
  • Villa , Dana . 1999 . Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . chapter 9
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 192
  • Arendt . Life of the Mind , 1 72

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