The political consequences of thinking : gender and Judaism in the work of Hannah Arendt

The political consequences of thinking : gender and Judaism in the work of Hannah Arendt / Jennifer Ring.

In this book, Jennifer Ring offers a wholly new interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem, with its bitter reception by the Jewish community, to The Life of the Mind. Departing from previous scholarship, Ring applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity to investiga...

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Main Author: Ring, Jennifer, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1998, ©1997.
Series:SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
Subjects:
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975. > Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975. > Jews as pariah.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Palestine.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion.
Public opinion > Israel.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.
Israel > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction
  • Hannah Arendt, Judaism, and gender
  • Identity politics and multiculturalism
  • Assimilation and gender
  • Race and gender
  • The context of feminist theory
  • Structure and organization of the book
  • 2: The politics of the Eichmann controversy
  • Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • The controversy
  • 3: Israel and the Holocaust
  • The dawning of reality
  • The structure of discomfort
  • Attempts at rescue
  • Israeli attitudes toward the Holocaust victims
  • Postwar negotiations with Germany
  • The "Kastner trial"
  • The trial of Adolf Eichmann
  • 4: The New York intellectuals and Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • The New York intellectuals and Judaism
  • The New York intellectuals and the Holocaust
  • Postwar politics and the New Yorkers
  • The New York intellectuals and Hannah Arendt
  • 5: Race, gender and Judaism: the Eichmann controversy as case study
  • Nazis and sexuality
  • Racism, sexism, and Jewish masculinity
  • Assimilation as gendered: the partisan review crowd revisited
  • Jewish women
  • The Eichmann controversy, gender, and Judaism
  • 6. Transition
  • Thinking about Eichmann
  • The political consequences of thinking
  • Arendt as Jewish Gadfly
  • 7. Biblical and Rabbinic approaches to thinking
  • Thinking like a Jew
  • The Bible
  • Talmud
  • Midrash
  • The Middle Ages
  • Mysticism
  • Jewish historical consciousness
  • 8. Greek and Hebrew: the structure of thinking
  • The structure of Hebrew thought compared to Greek
  • Rabbinic thought
  • Scoffolding
  • 9. Toward understanding Arendt as a Jewish thinker
  • A Jewish soul in a German scholar
  • The political trouble with philosophy
  • Warm-up exercise: an impressionistic reading of "truth and politics"
  • 10. The Pariah and Parvenu in Thinking
  • Seeing and hearing
  • Classical and Jewish orthodoxy
  • Socrates as Pariah
  • The wordly results of thinking
  • 11. Jewish themes in political
  • Action and history
  • Judaism and the space for political action
  • Judaism and Arendt's concept of history
  • Community in dark times
  • 12. Conclusion
  • Judaism
  • Gender.

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