Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide [Hardcover]

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe inThe Origins of Totalitarianism(1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of superior races to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as J?rgen Zimmerer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct.

This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendts opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the jumping-off point for further investigations  including ones critical of Arendt  into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe, and the colonised world.

Introduction
Richard H. KingandDan Stone

PART I: IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM

Chapter 1.Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror inGerman Racialist Thought
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Chapter 2.Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah ArendtsThe Origins of Totalitarianism
Kathryn T. Gines

Chapter 3.When the Real Crime Began: Hannah ArendtsThe Origins of Totalitarianismand the Dignity of the Western Philosophical Tradition
Robert Bernasconi

Chapter 4.Race and Bureaucracy Revisited: Hannah Arendts Recent Re-Emergence in African Studies
Christopher J. Lee

Chapter 5.On Pain of Extinction: Laws of Nature and History in Darwin, Marx, and Arendt
Tony Barta

PART II: NATION AND RACE

Chapter 6.The Refractory Legacy of Decolonil3$