Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Foreword 9 Beyond the Academic and Intellectual Worlds 11 1. Dogville - Eight Steps to Hell. A film review 29 2. Phantasies of Omnipotence 41 3. The Temptations of Lying 51 4. "Ice cold". The Way to Totalitarianism 63 5. Truth and Post-totalitarian Narratives 75 6.

Who is Capable of Acting? Some Thoughts on the Importance of Personality 89 7. The Virtù of the Statesman - Willy Brandt 101 8. When Telling the Truth Demands Courage 113 9. Sustainability - The Power of the 'Unreasonable' 127 10. Horror and Laughter - Arendt, Tabori, Borowski 151 11. Cause or Intention? Justifying Crime 163 12. Facing War Arendt and Habermas 181 13. Federalism - A Hidden Treasure 197 14.

Bridge and Border - Queering Europe 229 15. Rights Without Space - The Existence of a Transnational Minority 243 16. Europe and its Refugees: Arendt on the Politicization of Minorities 255 17. Elements of Cosmopolitanism - and its Handicaps 269 18. Desert and Oasis: Arendt Reads Stifter 285 19. Overcoming Inhuman Perspectives on Nature 311 20. The Encounter of republic and cosmos: Arendt and Humboldt 323.