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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ring, Jennifer, 1948-

Series:

SUNY Series in Political Theory : Contemporary Issues

SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues

SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Palestine.

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion.

Public opinion--Israel.

Public opinion.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Politics and government.

Jews.

Israel--Politics and government.

Israel.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Arendt, Hannah.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Jews as pariah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity in a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy and offers a wholly new interpretation of Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem to The Life of the Mind.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 investigate the extent to which Arendt's identity as a Jewish woman influenced both her thought and its reception.Ring's analysis of Zionist and assimilationist responses to century-old antisemitic sexual stereotypes leads her to argue that Arendt's criticism of European Jewish leadership during the Holocaust was bound to be explosive. New York and Israeli Jews shared a rare moment of unity in their condemnation of Arendt, charging that she had betrayed the Jewish community-the kind of charge, Ring contends, often leveled against women who dare to speak out publicly against prominent men in their own cultural or racial groups.The book moves from a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy to a discussion of Jewish themes in the structure and content of Arendt's major theoretical works. Ring makes a powerful contribution to an understanding of Arendt, and of multiculturalism, demonstrating that Arendt's most sustained philosophical work was influenced as much by her Jewish heritage as by her German education.

Contents:

""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Editors Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Content ""; ""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""; ""The Politics of the Eichmann Controversy""; ""ARENDT AND EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM""; ""THE CONTROVERSY""; ""Israel and the Holocaust""; ""THE DAWNING OF REALITY""

""THE STRUCTURE OF DISCOMFORT""""ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE""; ""Haavara""; ""Military Intervention""; ""Trucks for Blood""; ""ISRAELI ATTITUDES TOWARD THE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS""; ""POSTWAR NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY""; ""THE ""KASTNER TRIAL""""; ""THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN""; ""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""; ""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""; ""Transition""; ""THINKING ABOUT EICHMANN""; ""THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THINKING""; ""ARENDT AS JEWISH GADFLY""; ""Biblical and Rabbinic Approaches to Thinking""; ""THINKING LIKE A JEW""; ""THE BIBLE""; ""TALMUD""; ""MIDRASH""; ""THE MIDDLE AGES""; ""MYSTICISM""; ""JEWISH HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS""; ""Greek and Hebrew: The Structure of Thinking""

""THE STRUCTURE OF HEBREW THOUGHT COMPARED TO GREEK""""RABBINIC THOUGHT""; ""SCAFFOLDING""; ""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""""; ""The Pariah and Parvenu in Thinking""; ""SEEING AND HEARING""; ""CLASSICAL AND JEWISH ORTHODOXY""; ""SOCRATES AS PARIAH""; ""THE WORLDLY RESULTS OF THINKING""; ""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""; ""Conclusion""; ""JUDAISM""; ""GENDER""; ""Back Matter ""; ""APPENDIX""; ""Reviews of Raul Hilberg's: The Destruction of the European Jews""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 1.: INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 2.: THE POLITICS OF THE EICHMANN CONTROVERSY""; ""CHAPTER 3.: ISRAEL AND THE HOLOCAUST""; ""CHAPTER 4.: THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS AND EiCHMANN IN JERUSALEM""; ""CHAPTER 5.: RACE, GENDER AND JUDAISM: THE EICHMANN CONTROVERSY AS CASE STUDY""; ""CHAPTER 6.: TRANSITION""; ""CHAPTER 7.: BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC APPROACHES TO THINKING""

""CHAPTER 8.: GREEK AND HEBREW: THE STRUCTURE OF THINKING""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1739-X