Hannah Arendt Archives | Contending Modernities

Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

Gold-Plated Jerusalem

Series: Jerusalem

Shaul Magid
December 14, 2017July 9, 2020

In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.

Theo-Politics in Flux: The ‘Alt-Right’ on God, Christendom, and the Nation

Mara Willard
February 28, 2017May 26, 2017

Newly empowered, US white nationalists straddle pre- or a-modern theology and Christianity, re-constructed and re-lived on internet forums and tv-shows of late-modernity. Willard tracks the contentions in the US white nationalist right through the lens of Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”.