"The essays selected for this volume demonstrate the importance of law - conceptually, normatively and practically - to a proper understanding of Hannah Arendt s work. Though Arendt herself was not a lawyer, and lacked any legal training, it is remarkable that in each of her guises law plays an often subtle, at times idiosyncratic, but unavoidably vital role. For example, as a journalist, confronting the evil of Adolf Eichmann; or as an ..."
"Bringing together established academics and new researchers, the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal, illegal and alegal spaces. The key question which frames the contributions is whether and in what manner 'the public' operates as an interface between law and society, allowing the interests and opinions of the population at large to be represent ..."
"This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various, and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human rights, constitutional design, legislati ..."
"This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human rights, constitutional design, legislatio ..."
"1 See H Arendt, Between Past and Future (London, Penguin, 1977) 155: 'Only
foreign affairs, because the relationships between nations still harbour hostilities
and sympathies which cannot be reduced to economic factors, seem to be left as
a purely political domain.' Among the first explorations of the relevance of Arendt
for the discipline of international relations is AF Lang, Jr, and J Williams (eds),
Hannah Arendt and Internatio ..."
"1 G Kateb, Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (Oxford, Martin Robertson,
1984) 98. Civil disobedience is defined here as public, non-violent and illegal
protest, carried out in support of political change. 2 Ibid 98–99. 3 H Arendt, 'Civil
Disobedience', in Crises of the Republic (New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1972) 49–102, 83–84. Citations to this essay will henceforth appear in the text
with the abbreviation 'CD'. 4 ..."
Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers Ser.: Hannah Arendt : Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial by Peter Burdon 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-27353-0, ISBN: 1-317-27353-2