Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hiruta, Kei (1981-....)
Titre(s) : Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin [Texte imprimé] : freedom, politics and humanity / Kei Hiruta
Publication : Princeton (N. J.) : Princeton University press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (v-277 pages) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"This book is an exercise in theoretical conversation. Two of the most iconic thinkers
of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In
spite of their overlapping life-stories and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals,
they held mutual dislike for each other, Berlin going so far as to characterise Arendt
as representing 'everything that I detest most'. Drawing on a wealth of new archival
material, Kei Hiruta traces the development of the Arendt-Berlin conflict, from their
first meeting in wartime New York and the second meeting soon after the establishment
of the State of Israel, to their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the
Eichmann controversy, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other at
a 1967 conference, and Berlin's continuing animosity towards Arendt after her untimely
death in 1975. Hiruta juxtaposes political philosophy with intellectual history to
examine key issues that simultaneously connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including
the meaning and value of freedom, the nature of totalitarianism and its patterns of
emergence, evil and the Nazi Holocaust, human agency and moral responsibility, Zionism,
American democracy, Britain's imperial past and its post-war liberal present, and
the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Written in a lively and accessible style, Hannah
Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the first time, the full story of the adversarial
relationship between Arendt and Berlin, and draws important lessons for political
theory and philosophy today"
Sujet(s) : Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) -- Critique et interprétation
Berlin, Isaiah (1909-1997) -- Critique et interprétation
Philosophie politique
Philosophes juifs -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
190.904 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne et autres philosophies non orientales - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691182261. - ISBN 0691182264
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47029141w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47029141
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction -- ; A real Bête Noire -- ; Freedom -- ; Inhumanity -- ; Evil and judgment
-- ; Islands of freedom -- ; Conclusion -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; Appendix.