Jerome Kohn

Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Israeli Democracy

Philosophy

“Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Israeli Democracy is welcome and timely today when violence is so often mistaken for power. One is immediately struck by Zohar Mihaely’s sure grasp of Hannah Arendt’s unusual distinction of political power from any and all means of violence. This is the book I have been waiting years to read.”

Man Confronts Himself Alone

Philosophy

“Zohar Mihaely’s Man Confronts Himself Alone manifests a generating affinity between its author and Hannah Arendt. Here the last part of Arendt’s Human Condition, composed from her own reflected experience of the twentieth century, is transported into our temporal presence. In the universal perspective of today’s physical science, we discover ourselves alienated from the artifice we ourselves have built: as human beings we forsake our bearings in a human world. Man confronts himself alone—indeed he does.”