Chapter
The critique of Karl Mannheim
The originality of totalitarianism
The social viewpoint and the triad of activities
Process, causation and explanation
Chapter 1 Arendt and Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism between the Political and the Social
Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism
Chapter 2 The Human Condition and The Theory of Action
The sociological approach to action
Return to the Greeks and to Kant
The Social and the Political
The social versus the political
Chapter 3 Eichmann in Jerusalem: Heuristic Myth and Social Science
Black Comedy: A Question of Tone
Competing Portraits and Narratives
Anti-Semite? Sadist? Helpless Cog?
No Time to Think: Common Processes, Different Outcomes
Chapter 4 “The Perplexities of Beginning”: Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Revolution
1963: The Most Creative Period in Arendt’s Career
Arendt’s Concepts of Modernity and Revolution
Three Key Themes in On Revolution
Philosophy versus sociology
The American versus the French Revolution
The perplexities of beginning
Anti-intellectual Receptions of an Antisocial Text
Arendt and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 5 The Life of The Mind of Hannah Arendt
Some More on the Life of the Mind
Chapter 6 Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Personhood and Meaning
Sociological Theories of Thinking and Reflexivity
Chapter 7 Explaining Genocide: Hannah Arendt and The Social-Scientific Concept of Dehumanization
Making Human Beings, as Human Beings, Superfluous: Hannah Arendt and the Elements of Dehumanization
Overcoming Moral Restraints: Hannah Arendt and the Sociology of Dehumanization
Overcoming Empathy: Hannah Arendt and the Social Psychology of Dehumanization
A Critique of Empathy: Hannah Arendt and the Impersonal Imagination
Conclusion: Empathy and Explanation
Chapter 8 Arendt on Power and Violence
1. Regarding Method: Spectators, Phenomenology and Worldliness
2. Makers’ Violence, Actors’ Power and Their Place in the World
3. Concerning Some Current Ideas of “Power”
3.1 Habermas and the normative use of empirical diagnoses
3.2 Lukes and the debate on “power” in the social sciences
Chapter 9 The Theory of Totalitarian Leadership
Fascination without Charisma
What Do Totalitarian Leaders Do?
Indispensable-Dispensable Leaders
Hannah Arendt and Covert Sociology
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt
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