Notes bibliogr. Index.

Introduction: Thinking in dark times / Roger Berkowitz -- [Part 1, Politics] -- Reflections on antisemitism / Christopher Hitchens -- Fiction as poison / George Kateb -- A discriminating politics / Uday Mehta -- Hannah Arendt's political engagements / Seyla Benhabib -- What does it mean to think about politics? / Mark Antaki -- [Part 2, Lying and politics] -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- [Part 3, Citizenship] -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. Bernstein -- [Part 4, Evil and Eichmann in Jerusalem] -- Is evil banal? : a misleading question / Richard J. Bernstein -- Banality and cleverness : Eichmann in Jerusalem revisited / Peter Baehr -- Judging the events of our time / Jennifer L. Culbert -- Arendt's banality of evil thesis and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Yaron Ezrahi -- [Part 5, Judaism and cosmopolitanism] -- Liberating the pariah : politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt / Leon Botstein -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish experience : thinking, acting, judging / Jerome Kohn -- The pariah as rebel : Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings / Ron H. Feldman -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Jewish to the core / Suzanne Vromen -- [Part 6, Thinking in dark times] -- Thinking big in dark times / Drucilla Cornell -- Crimes of action, crimes of thought : Arendt on reconciliation, forgiveness, and judgment / Shai Lavi -- Solitude and the activity of thinking / Roger Berkowitz -- [Part 7, Sites of memory] -- Exile readings : Hannah Arendt's library / Reinhard Laube -- Remembering Hannah : an interview with Jack Blum / Roger Berkowitz -- My Hannah Arendt project / Shy Abady.