New Arrival Powers of Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Moral and Legal Philosophy

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Powers of Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Moral and Legal Philosophy

By David Luban
New Arrival Cambridge University Press May 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009647465
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book is about conscience and moral clarity. It asks how some people keep their judgment steadfast even when many around them are swept away by conspiracy theories, moral panics, and murderous ideologies-or, on a smaller scale, by immersion in a corrupt and corrupting workplace culture. It asks about the surprising fragility of common sense, including moral common sense, and it asks where morality fits into a meaningful human life. Beyond this, the book asks about legal accountability for crimes committed when moral judgment fails on a vast and deadly scale. Hannah Arendt addressed all these questions in a profound and original way.

Drawing on her published works, letters, diaries, and notes, David Luban offers clear accounts of Arendt's contributions to moral philosophy and international law, showing how her ideas about judgment and accountability remain crucially important to the moral and legal life of our century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hannah Arendt, the philosopher of judgment

Part I. Adolf Eichmann and the Banality of Evil:
1. Arendt in Jerusalem
2. Did Arendt get Eichmann wrong?

Part II. The Moral Philosophy:
3. Judgment in dark times
4. The Socratic moral propositions: thinking and judging
5. Conscience and the banality of evil

Part III. Common Sense and Moral Breakdown:
6. The flight from common sense
7. Common sense and plurality

Part IV. Arendt Before Jerusalem: Ethics in The Human Condition:
8. The curious case of the missing morality
9. The problem of futility in The Human Condition

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10. Statelessness, human rights, and humanity
11. The idea of international criminal law
12. The crime against the human status: Lemkin and Arendt
13. The promise and peril of identity as politics
14. Doing justice
15. Thoughtlessness as culpability
Conclusion: taking stock
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