Social Research articles from June 2002

Social Research archives from June 2002

Introduction.
June 22, 2002... I THE editor of Social Research, Arien Mack, and I both thought that it would be appropriate and of interest to begin this issue with a hitherto unpublished selection of Hannah Arendt's writings that immediately followed the publication of...

Karl Marx and the tradition of Western political thought.
June 22, 2002... The following excerpts from Hannah Arendt's manuscripts on Karl Marx are published here for the first time. When Arendt refers to the present--for instance, when she says "now"--it is important to be aware that she refers to the early 1950s,...

Ideology and storytelling *.
June 22, 2002... ONE of the most striking features of Hannah Arendt's analysis of totalitarianism is the prominent role she gives ideology. Even before she added the chapter, "Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government" (first published in English in 1953)...

Totalitarian lies and post-totalitarian guilt: the question of ethics in democratic politics.
June 22, 2002... Preface SINCE the devastating terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania in September 2001, the topic of "totalitarian lies" and the problem of political ethics have gained a surprising actuality, with both issues...

The Origins of Totalitarianism: not history, but politics.
June 22, 2002... DURING the summer of 1950, when Hannah Arendt was on vacation, she was reading proofs for The Origins of Totalitarianism. In a letter to her mentor and beloved friend, Karl Jaspers, she wrote: A lot of work here, of course, but also...

The people, the masses, and the mobilization of power: the paradox of Hannah Arendt's "populism" *.
June 22, 2002... I THIS paper is concerned with a puzzling feature of Arendt's thought, what might be called the paradox of her "populism." The paradox is that while she welcomed direct action by the people, she also feared and deplored almost all actual...

The philosophical stakes in Arendt's genealogy of totalitarianism.
June 22, 2002... I AM aware that the rifle of my paper is presumptuous. The Origins of Totalitarianism is a book of 450 pages. The nuances of what is philosophically at stake in a study of that size cannot be handled within the limits of a short paper....

Thinking with and against Hannah Arendt.
June 22, 2002... I WOULD like to propose a few critical remarks concerning Hannah Arendt's conception of the foundation of the totalitarian system as she presented it in the third part of The Origins of Totalitarianism. In the late seventies, when I read this...

A politics of natality.
June 22, 2002... HANNAH Arendt never directly addressed the nuclear question in a public work, yet in reflecting on this question, I have always found her work more suggestive and invaluable than any other thinker's. What response is appropriate to the...

Dictatorship before and after totalitarianism.
June 22, 2002... LET US reopen that remarkable book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. After all the commentaries and Arendt's subsequent works, can we still read it with a fresh eye? As we try, can we get away from the concerns of a dead Sovietology and a very...

Hannah Arendt on human rights and the limits of exposure, or why Noam Chomsky is wrong about the meaning of Kosovo.
June 22, 2002... THE Origins of Totalitarianism has received much attention, for it is a rich and elusive book, broaching many themes, touching upon many disciplines, presenting a kind of historical account as well as articulating, albeit indirectly, a...

Political geographies in a global world: Arendtian reflections *.
June 22, 2002... FOR Hannah Arendt, one of the principal concerns of political philosophy was to "think the new" in human affairs. As the art of making distinctions, thinking had to bring to bear upon political phenomena categories that would enable one to...

On the origins of a new totalitarianism.
June 22, 2002... OVER the past three days, we have been considering the relevance for the present time of Hannah Arendt's monumental work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 50 years ago, the first book of a then almost unknown 45-year-old emigre German...

The three phases of Arendt's theory of totalitarianism *.
June 22, 2002... HANNAH Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, first published in 1951, is a bewilderingly wide-ranging work, a book about much more than just totalitarianism and its immediate origins. (1) In fact, it is not really about those immediate...

Arendt's concept and description of totalitarianism.
June 22, 2002... THE enormous complexity of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism arises in large measure from its interweaving of a concept of totalitarianism with a description of the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin. (1) Today, after the...