Hannah Arendt on the stateless

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-60

  Bernstein, Richard J ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 34247665146     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1353464052000321092     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding 1930-1954, [ed.] Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994).
2. Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding 1930-1954, pp.4-5.
3. Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 152.
4. For a fuller account of Arendt's life as a stateless person, see Chapter 4, 'Stateless Persons,'.
5. See also 'What Remains? The Language Remains' in Essays in Understanding 1930-1954, pp.1-23.
6. Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age (New York: Grove Press, 1978), p.59.
7. Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, p.155.
8. Walter Benjamin, 'Theses on the Philosophy of History,' in Illuminations, [ed.] Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Press, 1969), p.257-8.
9. See Arendt's discussion of this thesis in 'Franz Kafka: A Reevaluation,' Partisan Review, 11/4 (1944);
10. reprinted in Essays in Understanding 1930-1954, pp.74-5.
11. Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, p.80.
12. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 3rd Edition, (San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt, 1968), p.280.
13. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.459.
14. In a review of J. T. Delos's book, La Nation, Arendt states bluntly: 'Nationalism signifies essentially the conquest of the state through the nation. This is the sense of the national state. The result of the XIX century identification of nation and state is twofold: while the state as a legal institution has declared and must protect the rights of men, its identification with the nation implied the identification of the national and the citizen and thereby resulted in the confusion of the Rights of Men with the rights of nationals or national rights... The conquest of the state through the nation started with the declaration of the sovereignty of the nation. This was the first step transforming the state into an instrument of the nation which finally has ended in those totalitarian forms of nationalism in which all laws and the legal institutions of the state as such are interpreted as means for the welfare of the nation. It is therefore quite erroneous to see the evil of our times in a deification of the state. It is the nation which has usurped the traditional place of God and religion.' 'The Nation', Review of Politics, 8/1 (January 1946), p.139.
15. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, p.20.
16. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, p.254.
17. See Arendt's discussion of opinion in On Revolution, pp.227-8 and p.268.
18. In On Revolution, (London: Faber and Faber, 1963) Arendt shows the web of connection between 'freedom,' 'no-rule,' 'isonomy,' and political equality: see pp.21-8.