Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (2007) 44-61
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Discusses Arendt's views on antisemitism, stressing that she believed that the modern form is different from traditional Christian antisemitism, and that its essence is political and characteristic of totalitarianism, e.g. as practiced by the Nazis. She linked antisemitism with imperialism and the collapse of the nation-state. Her cosmopolitanism was connected with a belief in the rights of man, i.e. all humans. She pioneered the view that the persecution of the Jews "merely" prefigured the emergence of stateless people and refugees on a global scale. Since nation-states cannot be trusted to protect the rights of individuals, humanity as a whole has to guarantee human rights. That is the basis of her "concrete universalism" which derived from her engagement with the "Jewish question". Focuses, in particular, on "The Origins of Totalitarianism".
Note:
Appeared also in "Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (2008) 63-80.
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