The clash of identities - discourse, politics, and morality in the exchange of letters between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

摘要: This thesis analyses the fabled public exchange of letters that occurred between political theorist Hannah Arendt and historian Jewish religion Gershom Scholem in 1964 following historic trial Adolf Eichmann Arendt's subsequent publication her report event, in Jerusalem. The covers the historical issues form contextual background to exchange. It involves the introduction two participants as defining intellectuals past century, course itself political ideological problems it entailed well turbulent history reception book. is down to these four factors guaranteed eminence analysed in thesis. Oft-quoted is, there has been no proper analysis it to this date. To accomplish this task, adopts theoretical-methodological framework discourse general, version rhetorically oriented discursive psychology, proposed mainly publications Potter Wetherell (1987) Billig (1996}, particular. approach allows provide a fine-grained various ways textual construction. Firstly, ways examined concern significance, worth value debate itself, formulated by both participants. Secondly, they involve construction attempt to establish definite versions content Thirdly, cover textual acts accounting for content, or practice misinterpretation content, respectively. What all three aspects have common positioning the problems touched upon a moral context, ultimately approaching them terms identities In sense, events and will not only aim at producing accurate descriptions of events but forms an implied morality politics "action-plan" for the future well. hence, analysed in terms its argumentative organisation order undermine other's counterversion and establish own one. While, structurally, are many similarities letters, what distinguishes them conceive their objects (i.e. text), subject positions, values according to which should be assessed quite diametrically opposite ways. not only registers rhetorical fashion their as definite ones, also accounts differences contents.