Author: Ivaylo Znepolski
Published by Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, New Bulgarian University and Ciela
Sofia 2023
ISBN: 978-954-28-4378-8
Order online via Ciela.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Part 1: HANNAH ARENDT AND RAYMOND ARON
- Hannah Arendt – a fugitive, and a pariah with a political consciousness
- Raymond Aron – the building of a political consciousness in the face of the “relentless brutality” of politics
- Post-war encounters
- Hannah Arendt – Critique of the nation-state and the Vichy anti-Semitism
- Aron, Vichy and his critique of The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Aaron’s leadership role at the Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Arendt and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Taking a stand against populist anti-communism
- Arendt and Aron in a head-to-head
- Arendt and Aron – how to understand current politics
- Hannah Arendt in search of the essence of politics. A critique of representative democracy
- Arendt, Aron and the 1968 student revolts
- Unspoken influences
- Raymond Aron – the need for political tools to drive representative democracy
- Arendt and Aron – two perspectives on history and freedom
- The two poles of political thinking
Part 2: HANNAH ARENDT AND ERIC VOEGELIN
- Informal early contacts and clarifying the incompatibility of their positions on the nature of totalitarianism
- Public clash between Arendt and Voegelin
- Two-way influences – both unconscious and ignored
- The relationship between tradition and modernity in Voegelin and Arendt
- Attempts at rapprochement – common themes and research tasks
Part 3: RAYMOND ARON AND ERIC VOEGELIN
- First encounters, proximity and differences in understanding “political religions”
- What are the roots of pseudo-religions
- Raymond Aron – the relationship between industrial society and the political nature of the regimes
- Eric Voegelin against the tide of technological absolutism
- Exclusive and complementary private truths
- Aron and Voegelin: men of yesterday or theorists of lasting intellectual influence
Part 4: HANNAH ARENDT AND THE OTHERS
- On the desert and the oases