The double face of the political and the social: Hannah Arendt and America's racial divisions

Research in Phenomenology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-24

  Bernasconi, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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EID: 62949202916     PISSN: 00855553     EISSN: 15691640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916496X00012     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 30-31. Henceforth HC
2. J.-J. Rousseau, Du contrat social, in vol. 3 of Oeuvres complètes (Paris: Pléiade, 1964), 3, chap. 15, p. 431
3. translated by Judith Bush, Roger D. Masters, and Christopher Kelly under the title Social Contract, in Collected Writings of Rousseau (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994), 4:193
4. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: The Viking Press, 1963), 110. Henceforth OR
5. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 113. Henceforth HA
6. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism rev. ed. (London: George Allen and Unwin 1967), 296 and 283. Henceforth OT. We still await a detailed study of its genesis based on the materials in The Library of Congress
7. See the criticisms of George Kateb in Hannah Arendt. Politics, Conscience, Evil (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanhold, 1983), 61-63
8. Lise Jane Disch, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 132-34
9. Robert Legros, "Hannah Arendt: Une compréhension phénoménologique des droits de l'homme," Etudes Phénoménologiques 1, no. 2 (1985): 35
10. Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), xi
11. Andrew Burnaby, Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759 and 1760 (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970), 149
12. Arendt simply referred to D. Echeverria, Mirage to the West: A History of the French Image of American Society to 1815, Princeton, 1957, p. 152 [in fact, p. 154]
13. On Condorcet's views of slavery, see R. H. Popkin, "Condorcet, Abolitionist," in Condorcet Studies 1, ed. Leonora Cohen Rosenfield (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1984), 35-47
14. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Family, trans. Michael T. Gilmore (London: J. M. Dent, 1982), 163
15. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, in Writings, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (New York: The Library of America, 1984), 289
16. Hannah Arendt, "Reflections on Little Rock," Dissent 6, no. 1 (1959): 45-51. Henceforth RLR
17. Arendt was responding to Ellison's claim that Arendt had failed to understand what was going on in the minds of Negro parents when they sent their children to schools that had previously been segregated. See his interview in Robert Penn Warren, Who Speaks for the Negro? (New York: Random House, 1956), 343-44
18. Hannah Arendt, "A Reply to Critics," Dissent 6 (1959): 179. Henceforth RC
19. Hannah Arendt to Matthew Lipman (Columbia University), 30 March 1959, on file among the papers of Hannah Arendt in the Library of Congress
20. George W. Cable, The Negro Question, ed. Arlin Turner (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1958), 160-61
21. Melvyn A. Hill, ed., Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Public World (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979), 318
22. See Robert Bernasconi, "The Constitution of the People: Frederick Douglass and the Dred Scott Decision," Cardozo Law Review 13, no. 4 (1991): 1281-96