Anti-Semitism, The Bourgeoisie, And The Self-Destruction Of The Nation-State

This chapter is about a series of contradictions in Hannah Arendt's writings, contradictions that she names and explores, and contradictions in her own discourse. Arendt's writings are a declaration of antipathy to the bourgeoisie by a thoroughly bourgeois writer, a defense of the nation-state based on dislike of nationalism, a defense of traditional bourgeois values from modern bourgeois domination, and an account of the modern state that granted the Jews emancipation at a point when, by becoming national, it was in the process of preparing the renewal of the Jews' exclusion and persecution.