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Jan 18, 2024 · Hannah Arendt would have probably viewed the Russification that began again under Putin in the first decades of the twenty-first century as less of a plot twist than an unimaginative repetition. In novels, there is often a moment when characters realize they have been living in a dream (or nightmare), when scales fall from their eyes and a new direction is taken.
May 2, 2024 · Ludger Hagedorn / Rafael Zawisza, Faith in the World. Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt, Chicago University Press/Campus Verlag 2021, 251 p., 34,95 EUR.
Like many of Arendt's books, The Origins of Totalitarianism is structured as three essays: "Antisemitism", "Imperialism" and "Totalitarianism". The book describes the various preconditions and subsequent rise of anti-Semitism in central, eastern, and western Europe in the early-to-mid 19th century; then examines the New Imperialism, from 1884 to the start of the First World War (1914–18); then traces the emergence of racism as an ideology, and its modern application as an “ideological ...
Oct 2, 2023 · I found disturbing echoes of Trump's rhetorical style in Hannah Arendt's description of Stalinist and Nazi apparatchiks in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Adam Serwer, The Cruelty is the Point (2021) When I read Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, I almost wrote something about it.
Jun 20, 2022 · Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers. (Photo courtesy of Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Library, Special Collections & Archives.) We recognize Hannah Arendt as a formidable seminal philosopher and political theorist of the twentieth century.
Jul 27, 2006 · Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organizations.
The digitization of the Hannah Arendt Papers is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. To enter the world of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is to encounter the political and moral catastrophes of the 20th century.
