{"product_id":"politics-philosophy-terror-9780691009353","title":"Politics Philosophy Terror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBegins by focusing on some controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. This title shows that Arendt's idea of the banality of evil - inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann - does not lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 \"Villa explores the tensions between [Hannah] Arendt's disdain for those who fail to think and her distrust of the contemplative retreat from the world... [A] lucid and illuminating book.\"--John Plotz, Lingua Franca \"In this splendid collection Villa focuses on Arendt's analysis of totalitarian evil and its relationship to the philosophical tradition.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  INTRODUCTION 3  CHAPTER ONE Terror and Radical Evil 11  CHAPTER Two Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a Representative Perpetrator 39  CHAPTER THREE The Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt's Relationship to Heidegger 61  CHAPTER FOUR Thinking and Judging 87  CHAPTER FIVE Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory 107  CHAPTER SIX Theatricality and the Public Realm 128  CHAPTER SEVEN The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates 155  CHAPTER EIGHT Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition 180  CHAPTER NINE Arendt and Socrates 204  Abbreviations 219  Notes 221  Index 261","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403672789335,"sku":"9780691009353","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-philosophy-terror-9780691009353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}