Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics

Editors’ Note

Editors’ note Hannah Arendt intentionally wrote antisemitism, antisemitic, and antisemite instead of anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic, and anti-Semite throughout her work. She did so for the simple reason that, as she wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism , there is a difference between “Jew-hatred” on the one hand and “antisemitism”ontheother.Thereisnosuchthingasapro-Semitic“Semitism” that an “anti-Semitism” opposes, but only an ideological “antisemitism.” Following Arendt’s reasoning and her practice, the essays in this volume will speak of antisemitism, antisemitic persons and ideas, and antisemites. ...