"Power, Judgment and Political Evil" examines Hannah Arendt's ideas about
thinking, acting and political responsibility. In an interview with Gunther Gaus
for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a
philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German
intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the
country. This book investigates the relationship between the life of the mind
and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining
in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas
about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and
violence. An