Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals

Hannah Arendt wasn't a liberal, she repeatedly declared. Yet in a series of ways she was a fellow traveler of Cold War liberals. And caught up as she also was in neo-imperial and racist entanglements that go entirely unmentioned in promotional accounts of Cold War liberalism and have barely begun to be challenged even today, she helps cast their thought in relief. Yet there is a proviso. From another, exceptional, and unique perspective-that of their Middle Eastern politics-Cold War liberals did challenge liberal Eurocentrism, following Arendt who did so more briefly

Backwardness · Cold war · Eurocentrism · Liberalism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy

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