Politics in Dark Times: Freedom, Equality, and Responsibility

1. Introduction Seyla Benhabib Part I. Freedom, Equality, and Responsibility: 2. Arendt on the foundations of equality Jeremy Waldron 3. Arendt's Augustine Roy T. Tsao 4. The rule of the people: Arendt, arche, and democracy Patchen Markell 5. Genealogies of catastrophe: Arendt on the logic and legacy of imperialism Karuna Mantena 6. On race and culture: Hannah Arendt and her contemporaries Richard H. King Part II. Sovereignty, the Nation-State and the Rule of Law: 7. Banishing the sovereign? Internal and external sovereignty in Arendt Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen 8. The decline of order: Hannah Arendt and the paradoxes of the nation-state Christian Volk 9. The Eichmann trial and the legacy of jurisdiction Leora Bilsky 10. International law and human plurality in the shadow of totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin Seyla Benhabib Part III. Politics in Dark Times: 11. In search of a miracle: Hannah Arendt and the atomic bomb Jonathan Schell 12. Hannah Arendt between Europe and America: optimism in dark times Benjamin R. Barber 13. Keeping the republic: reading Arendt's On Revolution after the fall of the Berlin Wall Dick Howard Part IV. Judging Evil: 14. Are Arendt's reflections on evil still relevant? Richard Bernstein 15. Banality reconsidered Susan Neiman 16. The elusiveness of Arendtian judgment Bryan Garsten 17. Existential values in Arendt's treatment of evil and morality George Kateb.