Arendt and Israel: In Response to Ratzabi’s and Lederman’s Critiques of the Essay ‘On the “Political” and the “Anti-Political”: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann and Israel’

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Abstract

In this article, Elhanan Yakira responds to Shalom Ratzabi’s and Shmuel Lederman’s critiques of his essay.

Yakira’s original essay, ‘On the “Political” and the “Anti-Political”: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann and Israel’, appeared in his book Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel, Am Oved and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2006.

Ratzabi’s critical article, ‘The Concept of ‘Responsibility’ and the Need for a Renewed Reading of Hannah Arendt’s Perception of Anti-Semitism’, appeared in Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 21 (2011).

Lederman’s critical article, ‘The Moral Failure’ of Hannah Arendt, appeared in Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 24 (2014).

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2015-12-01

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Response Article

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Arendt and Israel: In Response to Ratzabi’s and Lederman’s Critiques of the Essay ‘On the “Political” and the “Anti-Political”: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann and Israel’. (2015). IYUNIM: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society, 25, 93-119. https://iyunim.bgu.ac.il/index.php/iyunim/article/view/294