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The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt’s work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar.
Peter Baehr is professor of social theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences (2010) and the editor of The Portable Hannah Arendt (2002).
Philip Walsh is associate professor and chair of sociology at York University, Toronto. He has published articles in the areas of social theory, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge. He is the author of Arendt Contra Sociology: Theory, Society and Its Science (2015) and Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory (2005).
Editors’ Introduction: Arendt’s Critique of the Social Sciences - Peter Baehr and Philip Walsh; Part I. Books; Chapter 1. Arendt and Totalitarianism - Charles Turner; Chapter 2. The Human Condition and the Theory of Action - John Levi Martin; Chapter 3. Eichmann in Jerusalem : Heuristic Myth and Social Science - Judith Adler; Chapter 4. “The Perplexities of Beginning”: Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Revolution - Daniel Gordon; Chapter 5. The Life of the Mind of Hannah Arendt - Liah Greenfeld; Part II. Selected Themes; Chapter 6. Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Personhood and Meaning - Philip Walsh; Chapter 7. Explaining Genocide: Hannah Arendt and the Social- Scientific Concept of Dehumanization - Johannes Lang; Chapter 8. Arendt on Power and Violence - Guido Parietti; Chapter 9. The Theory of Totalitarian Leadership - Peter Baehr; References; Notes on Contributors; Index.