Politics 392HA - Polit Thinkers: Hannah Arendt

This topics course explores the life, affiliations, and ideas of a political theorist who has made a special contribution to the self-understanding of our age. In addition to the writings by that thinker, we also will read biographies and secondary commentaries as well as selected essays by authors who have influenced our thinker or who have been influenced by her or him. The thinker for this year is Hannah Arendt, who has written controversial but influential works on revolution, violence, and totalitarianism; the nation-state and statelessness; imperialism and racism; and anti-Semitism and Zionism.