| 单词 | Arendt |
| 例句 | Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Here she has gathered dozens of books in New York libraries with bookplates from Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, whose research arm was led by Hannah Arendt. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In examining the thoughts and trends that led to World War II, Arendt writes: Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt taught us, they always begin something new. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Soon after arriving in America, Arendt published a series of essays on Jewish politics in the German-Jewish newspaper “Aufbau,” now collected in The Jewish Writings. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The face of evil, Arendt discovered, wasn’t a demon lurking in the cellar but the factory supervisor in the nice house across the street. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But meaty roles – such as the lead in Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt – have required a return to her homeland, where she is referred to as Germany’s Meryl Streep. 'When I travelled, I hid my passport': Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa on Hitler's legacy and hidden love 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Crucially, Stanley also links fascism to economic inequality, and he quotes Hannah Arendt, who argued that fascism flourishes when individuals are “atomized.” Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Three years after Arendt’s baffled pronouncement, a Mexican anthropologist named Santiago Genovés took up the cause. “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “Hannah Arendt”: This biographical drama looks at the life of the philosopher and political theorist. Bite of Seattle, Pow Wow | Weekend Preview 2013-07-17T20:03:29Z That urge to brand the basic functions of daily existence justifies the book’s citations of Arendt and the Frankfurt School on the psychology of totalitarianism. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z There’s little surprise that before her rise as a political theorist, Arendt was a Zionist activist. What Were the Origins of the Holocaust? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The venerable Richard J. Bernstein, in “Why Read Hannah Arendt Now,” admits her error, and defends her, saying that we should “think with Arendt against Arendt” to confront contemporary racism. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" sums up the events of 1612, which began as a feud between two families but escalated into a panic about maleficium. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Ms. Arendt, 33, was born and raised in Mastic, N.Y., where she will return for a brief respite before leaving Eastern Long Island for Eastern Europe. From Barbados to Bucharest 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Together with Einstein and other prominent Jewish intellectuals, Arendt had criticised Israel for its encouragement of "fascist"-style nationalists who had carried out massacres in Deir Yassin and elsewhere. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z This is especially well noted by Hannah Arendt, an insightful critic of Totalitarianism. Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt was one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century, and 40 years after her death she may have eclipsed other figures who seemed bigger at the time. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Also, I’ve had “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” by Hannah Arendt, on my pile for years. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z This is a change that points to a democracy spiraling out of control and a prescription for the unfolding of what Hannah Arendt once called the “dark times” associated with totalitarianism. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Still, I would not hesitate to describe “Hannah Arendt” as an action movie, though of a more than usually dialectical type. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z Hate speech is a key ingredient of the fascist dictator’s rhetorical mix, as Arendt might put it, but far from the only one. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “If everybody always lies to you . . . nobody believes anything any longer,” said Hannah Arendt, a German American political theorist. Perspective | The Seth Rich lie, and how the corrosion of reality should worry every American 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z All produced ideas and phrases that have entered our moral vocabulary, most notably Arendt’s “banality of evil.” How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Arendt doesn’t pause for a moment, crisply retorting, “They should learn.” ‘Hannah Arendt’: a ferocious portrayal of a blazing intellect 2013-07-19T12:59:40Z The stellar Danielle Allen, in “Talking to Strangers,” offers thoughtful analysis of Arendt’s views of democratic citizenship that don’t pay sufficient attention to black sacrifice. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “It’s celebrating a female filmmaker, and Barbara as an actress, and Hannah Arendt herself — a philosopher in a traditionally male field,” said Barrett. Siff’s Women in Cinema festival opens 2013-01-18T23:37:47Z “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Love is All You Need” “The Smurfs 2,” “The Act of Killing” and “Hannah Arendt” They’re new at the Varsity Theatre. Movie bargains 2013-08-01T22:23:24Z Naím observes that what was different in Arendt’s day was that totalitarian rule was achieved through heavy-handed central control and censorship. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z She quotes Hannah Arendt and George Orwell; she talks about the instinct to bow before power, particularly before a supremely confident power. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Thinkers like Arendt and Sartre looked around the postwar landscape and concluded that freedom would be the era’s byword. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z How It Looks to Think: Watch Her My only real problem with “Hannah Arendt” is that it’s not a mini-series. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z In recent years, he’s read political philosopher Hannah Arendt and feminist Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” — ex-girlfriend Jenny Slate gave him the latter — and been increasingly upset by Trump’s policies and behavior. Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Written, as it were, not so much with Orwell in mind as Hannah Arendt. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The Eichmann of this study is a much more motivated Nazi than in Arendt’s version. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In the dismal and farcical age of Donald Trump, we badly need something like the scathing, cleansing force of Arendt’s intellect. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The result is a kind of prestige-TV version of Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil, in which fascist leaders are shown to be not über-villains but yet another version of the complex cable-drama antihero. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt cauterized Nazism as “the banality of evil.” Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z The show featured personal items belonging to Arendt, as well as numerous video and audio recordings. Europe’s Museums Begin Reopening, Cautiously, With New Rules 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z I wanted to know more about Hardwick’s sustaining friendships with McCarthy, Sontag, Rich, Bishop and Arendt — legends whose names appear often, but mostly in outline. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Heidegger, played by Klaus Pohl, and Eichmann, represented in real clips from his 1961 trial, are contrasting embodiments of the “dark time,” as Arendt calls it, that shadows every aspect of her life. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany in 1906 into a secular Jewish household. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z There’s a shot of his old comrade in cinema, François Truffaut, and snippets of Mr. Godard reciting from Hannah Arendt’s “On the Nature of Totalitarianism.” Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Enlivens Cannes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z This was beautifully described by Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” — that people “believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true.” Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Both Hannah Arendt and Sheldon Wolin, the great historians of totalitarianism, argued that the dangerous conditions that produce totalitarianism are still with us. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, I’d say Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” but there is the obvious risk that he might take it for an instructional manual. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z This was a very appealing invitation for many students, including a young Hannah Arendt, who became one of his intellectual “shock troops” in the 1920s. The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Drawing upon Hannah Arendt, it would be wise to resurrect one of the key questions that emerges from her work on totalitarianism, which is whether the events of our time are leading to totalitarian rule. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z That is the central question Susie Linfield poses in her new book, “The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left From Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky.” How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Additionally, Trump included the German-born American political theorist Hannah Arendt, who was perhaps best known for her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism." Trump's unhinged, tone-deaf list of "American heroes" is a fitting emblem of his presidency 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s a false dichotomy: Jewish thinkers like Arendt, and Benjamin, were a fundamental part of the culture whose brilliance the Nazis sought to extinguish. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Josephine Arendt, a professor emeritus at the University of Surrey in England, has proposed a potential defense against jet lag: a wearable sensor that measures light exposure and tells the wearer when to take melatonin. Perspective | Try these new tricks for fighting jet lag 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z A few blocks away, a line was forming at the door of the German Historical Museum, where a new exhibition about the life and work of the German-American intellectual Hannah Arendt was opening. Europe’s Museums Begin Reopening, Cautiously, With New Rules 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Himmelfarb won a fellowship to the University of Chicago, where she was influenced by immigrants like Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Louis Gottschalk, a specialist in the French and American revolutions. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Arendt, I suspect, would view Trump as more hilarious than dangerous, a weak third-generation photocopy of a Hitler-type rather than the real thing. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Like Adorno and the other German Jewish emigrants of her generation, Arendt was fixated on the question of why democratic institutions collapse and authoritarianism rises. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z In his telling, Arendt’s bleak view of European civilization arose from her repeated displacement as a German-born Jew. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Right now I’m rereading a lot of Hannah Arendt. Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Nor did other scholars, like Hannah Arendt, who instead characterize Stalinist Russia as totalitarianism. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Arendt didn’t have a high opinion of human nature or human group behavior, and given her life experience that’s understandable. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The piece, titled "Hannah Arendt's International Institute of Artivism," would consist of the reading and discussion of a text about totalitarianism by political theorist Hannah Arendt over a period of 100 hours. 'Cultural feeding frenzy': Art world descends on Cuba for Havana Biennial 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Modern Germany has been praised for its efforts to keep the dreadful memory of the Holocaust present for the generations born after what Hannah Arendt called the “break in civilization.” ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z There were some incredibly famous names among them, like Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst — some of the most important artists, writers, thinkers of the 20th century. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Human beings long for coherent stories that explain why bad things happen, Arendt says, even when those stories are delusional and dangerous. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Leaving Germany a few months later, Arendt settled in France. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z It is an unthinking canard that Arendt was duped by Eichmann’s act and underestimated his commitment to National Socialism. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z “I didn’t act thinking, I just thought,” Sukowa said of her performance as Arendt, known for her redoubtable intellect. Her Specialty Is Bringing Headstrong Women to Life Onscreen 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Thus, in a world defined by nationalism, Jews, in the words of Hannah Arendt, were left with “no right to reside in any country on earth.” What Were the Origins of the Holocaust? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Teresa is also considered, not as explicitly, an exemplar of the feminine genius that Ms. Kristeva has contemplated in books on Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein and Colette. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Anchored by a fascinating clip from a 1964 interview with an agitated, cigarette-waving Hannah Arendt, the film is an eloquent reminder of the ineluctable link between language and history. | 'Rabbit ? la Berlin': Out of Paradise and Into the Pot: A Post-Communism Parable 2010-12-07T23:02:00Z A year after the fall of France, in the spring of 1941, Arendt emigrated to the United States. The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Listening to Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt saw an “inability to think.” Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z When Hannah Arendt wrote about Eichmann, she cast him as an archetypal figure, and she defined the archetype, forgivingly and inaccurately, with the phrase that has become such a cliché: “the banality of evil.” Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Arendt, the most famous and influential of the six, was converted to Zionism by Hitler’s takeover in 1933. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Arendt wrote that even under a totalitarian regime, moral choice remains. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Turning away from this unintelligible disaster, many seek enlightenment in literary and philosophical texts from the past, such as Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” George Orwell’s “1984,” and Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Writing to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the novelist Mary McCarthy described it memorably. How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z Many of the intellectual heavyweights are here, from Hannah Arendt to Susan Sontag to James Baldwin. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z At times, “The Third Reich of Dreams” also echoes Hannah Arendt, who saw totalitarian rule as “truly total the moment it closes the iron vice of terror on its subjects’ private social lives.” How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, it is Arendt, not Eichmann, who occupies the famous glass box, answering to the claim that she “defended” Eichmann out of love for Heidegger. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer,” wrote the German-born political theorist Hannah Arendt many decades ago. Perspective | Reality scores a win over the perverse drive to discredit honest reporting 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z This is an old question that harkens back to the debates almost six decades ago between the noted political philosopher Hannah Arendt and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. The young people will save us: My experience marching with Black Lives Matter in Chicago 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z In 1969, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote of the abysmal disinterest of scientists or intellectuals in violence as a subject of serious study, “No one questions or examines what is obvious to all.” “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The philosopher Hannah Arendt took up the subject in her book “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” which investigated the mystery of how ordinary Germans transformed into murderous Nazis. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Arendt published those words in 1951, but as Naím writes, the modern combination of technical empowerment and economic disempowerment has resulted in a frontal attack on a shared sense of reality. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Many major figures get the better parts of their own chapters in “The Free World”: Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Isaiah Berlin, James Baldwin. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Arendt’s urbane and unceremonious style is in full display in these essays from the last two decades of her life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It was chronicled by Hannah Arendt in her controversial book “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” which popularized the phrase “banality of evil” in reference to the supposedly gray, bureaucratic personality Eichmann exhibited on the stand. Review: In ‘Operation Finale,’ the Agonizing Hunt for a Nazi 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt said a totalitarian state uses the secret police as the “executors and guardians of its domestic experiment in constantly transforming reality into fiction.” Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Arendt’s central obsessions — war, totalitarianism, genocide, mass migration and displacement, and the ambiguous nature of human rights — are at least as relevant as ever. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Not that “Hannah Arendt,” though ultimately a celebration of seriousness, is grim or plodding. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z Mr. Hilton, the son of Hungarians who fled Communism, invoked Hannah Arendt and inhuman systems, before turning to questions. A British Power Broker Sets His Sights on Washington 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Though the phrase today connotes approval, rather than admonishment, Eiland and Jennings are in agreement with Scholem, Arendt, and Benjamin’s befuddled contemporaneous critics when they affirm that their subject defies categorization. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Arendt in effect theorized Eichmann out of existence by means of her own intellectual snobbery; she defined mental life and found that Eichmann didn’t meet her standards, and she thereby diminished his moral agency. Review: “Operation Finale” and the Popular Understanding of Adolf Eichmann 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Arendt explained that such movements depended on the unconditional loyalty of the masses of “slumbering majorities,” who felt dissatisfied and abandoned by a system they perceived to be “fraudulent” and corrupt. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Arendt and Mary McCarthy did some detective work, and discovered the reviewer's identity. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z Berlin was a loyal Zionist from afar; Arendt was anything but. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z “It wasn’t my plan to write a historian’s book, just arguing against Arendt with historical facts,” Ms. Stangneth said. Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z “They loved him, they absolutely loved him,” said Ms. Arendt, who graduated from Temple University and received a master’s degree in executive public management and international relations from the University of Maryland. From Barbados to Bucharest 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Arendt’s book is a crucial work of history that set out the Nazi regime’s crimes in careful and fulsome detail. Review: “Operation Finale” and the Popular Understanding of Adolf Eichmann 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Among the some 2,000 people he rescued were the artist Max Ernst, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and the German novelist Heinrich Mann. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Deprivation of citizenship should be classified as a crime against humanity, Arendt argued, because most legal protections are now conferred through functioning state governments. The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In another year, the show’s insistence on humanizing fascists might have seemed like a provocative choice—an effort, like Arendt’s, to understand how normal people can find it in themselves to commit the worst atrocities. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z For 13 months Fry helped imperiled artists and writers leave France, including Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst and many others. The 10 books to read in May 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z From Hobbes to Gandhi to Hannah Arendt, and touching on statecraft, revolutions and more, there’s much to dig into, whether you’re a would-be student, undergraduate, or just politically curious. From Hobbes to Gandhi, the history of ideas – podcasts of the week 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “I thought he was such a smart guy, he kind of taught me about Barbados,” Ms. Arendt said. From Barbados to Bucharest 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Typically, in literary fiction, epigraphs are gloomy, perhaps some Hannah Arendt or Robert Oppenheimer or Nietzsche. Jeanette Winterson’s Playful New Novel Offers Thoughts on Mad Science and Sexbots 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z And in a manner not altogether dissimilar to the way “Julie & Julia” mastered the art of French cooking, “Hannah Arendt” conveys the glamour, charisma and difficulty of a certain kind of German thought. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z In “Origins,” for example, some key conditions that Arendt connected with the emergence of totalitarianism were increasing xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, and hostility toward elites and mainstream political parties. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z It is in alignment with other authoritarian movements in other countries for sure, and actually political theorist Hannah Arendt talks a lot about this in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” "We have been here before": Heather Cox Richardson on how to save our republic 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z That warning came from Hannah Arendt, the famed 20th century political philosopher, according to Samantha Rose Hill, Arendt's biographer. A good week for the rule of law: With democracy in crisis, courts are doing their job 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Postwar America experienced a renaissance of the public intellectual, with help from the infusion of ideas of European refugees like Hannah Arendt, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Albert Einstein. Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn't enough 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Arendt argues that the "freedom of opinion" on which democracy depends is "a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute." Rudy Giuliani faces possible disbarment — and here's why that matters 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s very much about the banality of evil, an apt if overused term that Hannah Arendt coined while writing about the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of Höss’ bosses. With two essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z They were not qualitatively different from those of Bertrand Russell or Hannah Arendt, nor of any of a hundred polymathic and wise figures we can enumerate today. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He stayed on to do graduate work with the school’s Committee on Social Thought, where he studied under the philosopher Hannah Arendt and received a master’s degree in 1970. Michael Denneny, a dean of gay publishing, dies at 80 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Postwar America experienced a renaissance of the public intellectual, with help from the infusion of ideas of European refugees like Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Claude Lévi-Strauss and the greatest of them all, Albert Einstein. Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn't enough 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Some of those he helped were famous — Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, Marc Chagall — but most were not. Review | Who escapes and who must stay? Stark choices amid Afghanistan evacuation. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Likewise, political theorist Hannah Arendt, the 20th century's foremost expert on the subject, has written that "the fascists of the 1930s elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society's humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy." Trump's attacks on prosecutors are ominous — but they won't work 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Back in Stanford, he immersed himself in the works of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., political philosopher Hannah Arendt, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and Mahatma Gandhi, who became his “personal hero.” David Harris, activist jailed over Vietnam draft resistance, dies at 76 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z "The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness," Hannah Arendt writes, "but his isolation and lack of normal social relations." The viscous cycle of killer news: American democracy is dying — and taking Americans with it 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “Politics is a social activity, and social activity has historically always included food,” Arendt said. Close mayoral race wasn’t bought with cinnamon rolls, court rules 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Proust, when he writes about antisemitism, makes an important distinction between vice and crime, a distinction quoted at length by Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism." Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z This meticulously staged world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse offered a new way of understanding Hannah Arendt’s idea of the “banality of evil.” Best theater of 2022: So many L.A. bright spots in a challenging year 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Smaller but scene-stealing walk-on parts go to woman of letters Mary McCarthy, philosopher Hannah Arendt, journalist Murray Kempton, poets June Jordan and Sterling Brown, composer Virgil Thomson, and novelists James Baldwin and Norman Mailer. Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Journalist Varian Fry, smuggling people out of Vichy France and into Spain — including such celebrated figures as Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall and Wanda Landowska — wrote home, “It’s stimulating to be outside the law.” Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Throughout the colonial era and 19th century, campaign events brimming with booze and food were so typical that they inspired at least two terms, Arendt said: “treating” and “swilling the planters with bumbo.” Close mayoral race wasn’t bought with cinnamon rolls, court rules 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Political theorist Hannah Arendt called this "the banality of evil." Christian nationalism is getting written out of the story of January 6 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z How does the word conscience function in Arendt’s analysis? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The pictures provide a haunting illustration of what the philosopher Hannah Arendt famously called “the banality of evil.” Review: The banality of evil is central to a disturbingly resonant 'Here There Are Blueberries' 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt was right to argue that language is crucial in highlighting the often hidden "crystalized elements" that make authoritarianism more likely. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z But in gastronomical politics, “the pinnacle of presidential or candidate success” was having a cake named after you, Arendt said — á la the Washington Cake, the Harrison Cake, the Madison Cake or the Jackson Jumbles. Close mayoral race wasn’t bought with cinnamon rolls, court rules 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Arendt and her generation of scholars were concerned about how totalitarianism could emerge from the very principles we think make us free. Christian nationalism is getting written out of the story of January 6 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z How does the figure of Socrates function in Arendt’s analysis to reveal the role of thinking? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Describing himself as a small cog in the state apparatus who was in charge of train schedules, his professed mediocrity gave rise to the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil. Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z It is also, as Arendt points out, a struggle against "a widespread fear of judging." Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt noted that communally maintaining these false narratives, in the face of lived facts, created “bonds of duplicity.” Opinion | The bonds of duplicity are strengthening in the Republican Party 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In Arendt's view, these people are avoiding the human responsibility "to think" from others' perspectives and to interrogate commonly held ideas. Christian nationalism is getting written out of the story of January 6 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Why is thinking, in the sense that Arendt considers it, so easily disregarded by society? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When Colombian artist Doris Salcedo read Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book “On Revolution,” a passage about “civil war raging all over the earth” jumped out at her. Review | Doris Salcedo used 15,000 needles to represent pain of gun violence 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z I touched on this in my newsletter, but I've been thinking a lot about Hannah Arendt's writings about how disconnection fuels authoritarianism. Why Republicans will always ignore the red flags of mass shootings 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z To this “commonplace” observation, Arendt added the admonition: “Nothing would be gained by simplification or moral denunciation.” Opinion | Truth and politics don’t necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt called widespread loneliness an underlying condition for totalitarianism. How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Arendt diagnoses the core problem of a person like Eichmann as “not stupidity but a curious, quite authentic inability to think.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z We're very much facing down what Hannah Arendt described as the "banality of evil," where outright fascism is getting normalized and legitimized. Sorry, New York Times: Republicans aren't "concerned" about democracy — they want to destroy it 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Margaret Sullivan’s March 14 Style column, “Russia’s sowing of confusion is next-level,” explained the foresight Hannah Arendt had about misinformation and how that draws a parallel with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s use of misinformation. Opinion | Land of confusion (now and always, apparently) 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Yet to the extent the case for free speech hinges on its social benefits as well as individual fulfillment, Arendt splashed some cold water on it, too. Opinion | Truth and politics don’t necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In the digital age, keeping reality under lock and key isn’t as feasible as in Hannah Arendt’s day. Perspective | Russia’s new control tactic is the one Hannah Arendt warned us about 50 years ago 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z What are the main points Arendt raises in her introduction? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Hannah Arendt described the role that today's Republican Party plays as a front organization for fascism and authoritarianism in her essential work "The Origins of Totalitarianism": Republicans have dropped the mask — they openly support fascism. What do we do about it? 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Rather than being a precise replica of the past, fascism should be viewed as a series of patterns that emerge out of different conditions that produce what Hannah Arendt called totalitarian forms. In an age of fascist counterrevolution, our biggest problem may be the death of ethics 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The more apolitical these professionals are, Arendt argued, the more paradoxically useful and necessary they are to “the political realm,” as sources of trusted information, analysis and ideas. Opinion | Truth and politics don’t necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “Truth will out,” wrote Shakespeare in an era much further removed than Arendt’s from our own dystopian moment. Perspective | Russia’s new control tactic is the one Hannah Arendt warned us about 50 years ago 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Is Arendt’s passion an asset or a barrier to her ability to reason and write philosophy? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The writer Hannah Arendt, reflecting on society’s loathing for hypocrisy, called it “the vice of vices.” Why Boris Johnson May Finally Have Gone Too Far 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z “Not doubting I could gull the government,” wrote Daniel Defoe in 1701, and Hannah Arendt used the word “gullible” repeatedly in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” published in 1951. Opinion | Why Republicans Keep Falling for Trump’s Lies 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Painful and lonely though it can be to stand apart from the community and its political contests, Arendt wrote, impartial pursuit of truth has its rewards. Opinion | Truth and politics don’t necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z And, “with such a people,” as Arendt put it, “you can then do what you please.” Perspective | Russia’s new control tactic is the one Hannah Arendt warned us about 50 years ago 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z What edits to the third edition does Arendt make? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z At a different point in the same work, Arendt issues this warning: It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z In Science today, Musser, Arendt, and their team of international collaborators report distinguishing 18 kinds of sponge cells, including a few resembling specialized cells in humans and more complex animals. Sponge innards suggest how nerve cells evolved 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z And that brings us to Arendt, the 20th century student of totalitarianism and author of a classic 1967 essay, “Truth and Politics.” Opinion | Truth and politics don’t necessarily go together. Good luck fixing that. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z That’s how authoritarian leaders manage to control the populace, the great German political philosopher Hannah Arendt once explained. Perspective | Russia’s new control tactic is the one Hannah Arendt warned us about 50 years ago 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z What is the ultimate goal of totalitarian regimes, according to Hannah Arendt? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Two weeks ago, on the day he found out he wouldn’t be able to provide testimony, Smith tweeted an image of Hannah Arendt’s classic book “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” University of Florida prohibits professors from testifying 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Musser, Arendt, and their colleagues report finding some of these neuroid cells and documenting that they have active genes in common with the side of a synapse that sends a signal to another nerve cell. Sponge innards suggest how nerve cells evolved 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z These corporate judges, who epitomize what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil, now routinely make war on workers, civil liberties, unions and environmental regulations. The corporate state came for human rights lawyer Steven Donziger — and we're next 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In her seminal 1951 book "The Origins of Totalitarianism", Hannah Arendt offered the following description of how fascist-totalitarian movements such as Hitler's Nazi Party were organized: Hillary Clinton tried to warn us — and paid the price. Let's at least call Republicans what they are 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z As the philosopher Hannah Arendt explained, there is a profound difference between "behavior" and "action." Behavioral science won't fix the climate crisis 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Arendt, who cares for his 99-year-old father, a World War II veteran, also said such steps were important to those who care for vulnerable family members, like himself. Biden’s vaccine rule draws both cheers and resistance from federal workers 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “With neurons it always takes two cells to tango, with one cell sending the signal and one cell receiving it,” Arendt says. Sponge innards suggest how nerve cells evolved 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z References include Emily Dickinson, who called loneliness “the horror not to be surveyed,” and Hannah Arendt, who flagged the feeling as “the common ground for terror” in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” Review: Feeling lonely? Join the club with an intense new graphic memoir 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Arendt's description is a perfect fit for today's Republican Party and neofascist movement. Hillary Clinton tried to warn us — and paid the price. Let's at least call Republicans what they are 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He cited a Hannah Arendt quote: “There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous.” In a Muffled Hong Kong, Bookstores Offer Freedom of Thought 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z During the two or three times that Malcolm popped into her office, always gracious, to grab a book by Hannah Arendt or Susan Sontag, I never told her the story. Appreciation: Journalist Janet Malcolm's work was a marvel, both chilling and provocative 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt said that anytime we lie, we tear a hole “in the fabric of factuality.” The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z I have a shelf of books dedicated to the question, from Hannah Arendt’s “The Jew as Pariah” to Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” Opinion | Can We Really Picture Auschwitz? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Radical evil, Hannah Arendt wrote, makes whole groups of human beings superfluous. The evil within us: How Christian fascist ideology led to the Atlanta killings 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z On Twitter, author Jared Yates Sexton recently echoed Arendt with a contemporary warning: CPAC veers into neo-Nazi fantasy: Was it deliberate? That hardly matters 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The lead author, Dr. Linn H. Arendt, an obstetrician at Aarhus University in Denmark, said that being overweight in pregnancy is unhealthy for several reasons, and that most women are aware that obesity poses risks. Excess Weight During Pregnancy Tied to Fertility Issues in Sons 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, in her landmark book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” understood the goal of the technique. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z According to Arendt, Eichmann was haunted by the desire never to return to the humdrum life of a traveling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Company that he once occupied before joining the German government. What reckoning for Trump collaborators? None: The historical amnesia is already here 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt goes to Israel to cover Adolf Eichmann’s war-crimes trial for The New Yorker magazine. Movies on TV this week: 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' KCET 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt finished her classic work on totalitarianism in the early 1950s, after barely escaping Germany with her life, leaving friends and homeland behind. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt warned, "This is how you create a dictatorship. You destroy the idea of truth." Can America be saved from Donald Trump's black hole of lies? 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Among many others who have studied authoritarianism are Hannah Arendt, Yascha Mounk and Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, whose parents survived the Holocaust. Review | Measuring the authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s followers 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt famously talked about the banality of evil – unspeakable horrors are often perpetuated by unthinking people simply “doing their job”. Trump's 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward facism | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Social theorist Hannah Arendt described such people in her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism": The Trump regime defends racism: At least they're being honest for once 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z But Arendt understood that what was at stake was far more. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z To explain why average citizens prove susceptible to lure of authoritarianism, Applebaum refers to the notion of an “authoritarian personality,” identified by the philosopher of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt. Review | The everyday decisions that undermine democracy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s also, following the political theorist Hannah Arendt’s famous account, a collective capacity to coordinate and act in concert. The American right is pushing 'freedom over fear'. It won't stop the virus | Jan-Werner Müller 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt wrote of the communists and fascists that they replaced “first-rate talents” with “crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity” was the best guarantee of their loyalty. Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Writing in her 1951 book "The Origins of Totalitarianism," political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt previewed the type of authoritarian movement that Donald Trump now commands: As the people rise up against brutality, Trump and his enforcers move to criminalize dissent 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z My mother writes back to confirm the Chinese names of Arendt’s titles. Opinion | Of the Virus and God, Orange Peels and the Party 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z "Only where great masses are superfluous or can be spared without disastrous results of depopulation is totalitarian rule, as distinguished from a totalitarian movement, at all possible," Arendt wrote. Trump is preparing the ground for a totalitarian dictatorship — but we can stop him 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Within the first few pages Allen calls his father’s sister a “circus pinhead,” says his mother looked like Groucho Marx and opines that his parents were as mismatched as Hannah Arendt and Nathan Detroit. Review: Canceled, creepy and still funny, Woody Allen shrugs 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The German-Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt also turned her attention to camps after the war. 'It’s a place where they try to destroy you': why concentration camps are still with us 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z In short, let us, in the spirit of Hannah Arendt and Jonathan Schell, focus less on the divisive issues that Congress is handling, and more on the potentially unifying issues that Congress should be handling. The climate crisis must reunite America — and yes, that could happen 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt wrote these words in the 1943 essay We Refugees. 'They honor immigrants': writers pick the greatest migration stories you should read 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In her classic book, "The Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt pointed to fear of terror as a tool used by totalitarian regimes to control populations. Trump is preparing the ground for a totalitarian dictatorship — but we can stop him 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z A culture of withdrawal, privatization and immediacy reinforces an indifference to public life, the suffering of others and what Hannah Arendt once called "the ruin of our categories of thought and standards of judgment." Impeachment and the politics of organized forgetting: This attack on Trump isn't nearly enough 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z In 1940, Arendt had her own direct experience of this relatively novel form of containment. 'It’s a place where they try to destroy you': why concentration camps are still with us 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z But Arendt warns us that history lost, even if only because it is temporarily pushed underground, is still, indeed, memory lost. The Erasure of Political History at the National Archives 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z And yet Arendt herself was pessimistic about the quest for a proof of equality; in her view, the Holocaust had revealed that there was “nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.” The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z He is an extraordinary thinker, a lonely rebel who doesn’t quite fit into any tribe, a man of great intellect and perhaps greater despair, and in the words of Hannah Arendt, “a failed mystic”. Elif Shafak: ‘No one does sisterhood and resilience like Audre Lorde' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Through the centuries, as Orwell and Arendt made clear long ago, the connection between the integrity of language, the validity of facts, and the strength of any country has been acknowledged. The war on words in Donald Trump’s White House 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The inmates had to endure overcrowding, disease and insufficient food rations, and were made to live together regardless of the fact that some were Nazi party members and others, like Arendt, were Jewish refugees. 'It’s a place where they try to destroy you': why concentration camps are still with us 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Speaking at the College of Europe in Bruges tonight, he quoted the philosopher Hannah Arendt to encourage those campaigning for Britain to remain. Donald Tusk: Don't give up on stopping Brexit 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z It fulfills Hannah Arendt’s prediction that while the practice of violence undoubtedly does change the world, the most probable change that it brings about is a more violent world. Donald Trump and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: "Disordered Minds" who think alike 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z It shows them to be passionate, articulate and as capable of quoting Hannah Arendt as Heidegger. Hard talk: Broadway gets tough on America in crisis 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, writing about the Pentagon Papers and the corrosive effects of falsehoods back in 1971, called “the right to unmanipulated factual information” basic, one “without which all freedom of opinion becomes a cruel hoax.” The war on words in Donald Trump’s White House 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Arendt wrote that the ultimate denial of humanity was the anonymous death in a Nazi death camp. A Hypnotic but Contextless Portrait of Stalin’s Death and Its Aftermath 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Thomas Chatterton Williams is a contributing writer for the magazine and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Philosopher Hannah Arendt warned of this in her 1971 essay “Lying in Politics”: Patriotism, truth and fascism: Donald Trump is creating a subjective reality 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Consider Hannah Arendt’s famous book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Caged children and everyday evil 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z In her famous book "Eichmann in Jerusalem," Arendt reminded us how new “language rules” became part and parcel of the Nazi propaganda world in ways meant to confuse the public about the changing German reality. The war on words in Donald Trump’s White House 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z It is a portrait of what Hannah Arendt, describing totalitarian society, called “one man of gigantic dimensions.” A Hypnotic but Contextless Portrait of Stalin’s Death and Its Aftermath 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt warned in her landmark book "The Origins of Totalitarianism": When Trump talks about "our movement," be afraid — it will outlast his presidency 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, who wrote "The Origins of Totalitarianism", she says this idea from the 1930s, 1920s onward, created fascism. How the internet spawned 21st-century fascism 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Arendt would later explain that by it, she meant that she found no “diabolical or demonic profundity” in Eichmann. Caged children and everyday evil 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt and others have proposed, this kind of totalitarian ideology can be immensely seductive to those who feel alienated or left behind by the rapidly changing facts of modern social reality. Robert Mueller vs. the House Insanity Caucus: There were no survivors 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z “While the people in all great revolutions fight for true representation,” Hannah Arendt once wrote, “the mob will always shout for the ‘strong man,’ the ‘great leader.’ The Squad v the mob: that's what the 2020 election boils down to | Moustafa Baymoumi 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “It is more akin to a contemporary art museum than a warehouse,” says David Arendt, former managing director of Le Freeport. Inside the Luxembourg free port storing riches for the super-wealthy 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The title of this book is a reversal of Hannah Arendt's conception of "the space of appearance." Happy Fourth of July: Is this really the America we want? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z It might also be useful to consider this famous maxim from Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism": More from the Chronicles of TrumpLandia: Heartbroken fans still love their hero 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Arendt's wisdom and warning resonates loudly in the ongoing struggle to protect women's reproductive rights and freedoms in the United States. Alabama atrocity: Infamous new law equates abortion with crimes of Hitler and Stalin 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism merited a new edition, pitched as “a nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z “Hannah Arendt said that in politics and history things only become irreversible when people recognise them as such. Because, in themselves, they are not irreversible,” Tusk said. Donald Tusk: chance of Brexit being cancelled could be 30% 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z For Arendt, the space of appearance was a space where people would interact, a space of "speech and action," and a space where people would appear together and perform civic duties. Happy Fourth of July: Is this really the America we want? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z He belonged to few academic or political organizations and was unafraid to challenge his peers, whether Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Hannah Arendt or British historian David Irving. John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z After a while, I fell into conversation with a psychotherapist, who told me he’d been reading Hannah Arendt. The Wild Carnival at the Heart of Skiing’s Most Dangerous Race 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He integrates more literary extracts—“Amnesty” contains several hidden layers of testimony from prisoners at Sednaya; other paintings include sections of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” or Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z His new book looks at how historical figures from astronomer Galileo Galilei to philosopher Hannah Arendt tackled science denial in their own turbulent times. Daily briefing: Top tips for undergraduates looking to break into the lab 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z In reverse Arendt's formulation of political space, the black sites are revealed as spaces beyond politics, beyond civic life, and beyond humanity. Happy Fourth of July: Is this really the America we want? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z I conclude my book with a discussion of the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt. The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring it back 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z “If one is attacked as a Jew,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “one must defend oneself as a Jew.” Opinion | Our Brother, Our Executioner 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Arendt issued another unsportsmanlike call - the one which would have disqualified him from further wrestling this season - and told the court Halter was taunting, directed his reaction toward spectators in the stands from Burlington. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt once observed of interwar Europe, delimited “exceptional” police powers are notoriously contagious. Hoda Muthana and Trump's assault on birthright citizenship | Ian Zuckerman 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt was right in insisting that the loss of historical memory and the rise of thoughtlessness is fundamental to the politics of demagogues and totalitarian societies. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In politics, as Hannah Arendt said, “speech rules supreme.” Did Britain Overhear Theresa May’s Brexit Plan in a Hotel Bar? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But wealth without political power, as Hannah Arendt understood, is a recipe for hatred. Opinion | The Progressive Assault on Israel 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z There have been decades of debate, now, about what Hannah Arendt really meant when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” Opinion | What the Liam Neeson case teaches us about evil 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt once wrote that lies and conspiracy theories pushed people to “seek refuge in cynicism”. Europe is in the grip of conspiracy theories – they will define its elections | Natalie Nougayrède 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Humiliations in neo-imperialist ventures abroad, followed by the rolling calamity of Brexit at home, have cruelly exposed the bluff of what Hannah Arendt called the “quixotic fools of imperialism.” Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The Partisan Review writers Dwight Macdonald and Hannah Arendt were early influences; another contributor to the magazine, the art critic Clement Greenberg, helped get him his first job. Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z In 1958, the philosopher Hannah Arendt worried that our technologies might leave us “unable to understand, that is, to think and speak about the things which nevertheless we are able to do”. Human genome editing: ask whether, not how 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z This is signaled to by Hannah Arendt in the seminal work "The Origins of Totalitarianism." “Donald Trump is destroying truth”: Scholar Jason Stanley on the rhetoric of American fascism 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “It was a location of opportunity to hide the victim,” Arendt told local media on Sunday. Indiana teen to face charges in pregnant classmate's death: prosecutor 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Alex Arendt of the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit said the teen, who is on the Mishawaka High School football team, was arrested Sunday. Indiana teen arrested in death of pregnant schoolmate 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Arendt says the extent of the relationship between the two youths was under investigation. Boy, 16, arrested in death of 17-year-old Indiana schoolmate 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z One is reminded then of Hannah Arendt’s observation about facts and events: “Once they are lost, no rational effort will ever bring them back.” George H. W. Bush’s Presidency Erased People with AIDS. So Did the Tributes to Him 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt described a long time ago the ideal subject of totalitarian rule as “people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … true and false … no longer exists”. The US press corps has to learn to stand up to Trump | Suzanne Moore 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Arendt did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident, which occurred in the city of Mishawaka. Indiana teen to face charges in pregnant classmate's death: prosecutor 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Sunday after they “got the feeling that something wasn’t right,” Arendt said. Indiana teen arrested in death of pregnant schoolmate 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt once wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism. Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh and the path to neoliberal fascism 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z It makes one see that Arendt was right: once elided, facts and events are almost impossible to restore to a narrative. George H. W. Bush’s Presidency Erased People with AIDS. So Did the Tributes to Him 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But in the end, he decided it was important to try to convey what Hannah Arendt, writing about the trial of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, called “the banality of evil.” With '22 July,' Paul Greengrass tackles Norway's deadly 2011 terror attack and the perils of far-right extremism - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “We have to do both in a smart way,” she says, pointing to Hannah Arendt’s political friendships. The white southerners who changed their views on racism 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Khan went to Williams College, where she wrote a thesis on the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Khan went to Williams College, where she wrote a thesis on political philosopher Hannah Arendt. Amazon antitrust critic has her own critics now 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z For fearful ruling classes, political order depended on their ability to forge an alliance between, as Hannah Arendt wrote, “capital and mob,” between rich and powerful whites and those rendered superfluous by industrial capitalism. Opinion | The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But Arendt herself thought political dissimulation was much older. Perspective | Postmodernism didn’t cause Trump. It explains him. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Enrollment was small, around twenty, but a number of future intellectual luminaries, like Hannah Arendt and Jacques Lacan, either took the class or sat in on it. Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Arendt, herself an excellent chronicler of popes and saints, believed in good and evil, and knew the one from the other. Opinion | The pope’s death penalty announcement reminds us what is pure and holy 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Sakharov’s thinking here echoes Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil,” which focussed on the willful rejection of thought and depth. Fifty Years Later, Andrei Sakharov’s Seminal Essay Is a Powerful Model of Writing for Social Change 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The last time I went on holiday, I packed a carefully curated suitcase filled with Arendt, Baldwin and Knausgård. Am I really ‘hurtling towards middle age’ at 35? | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “I guess it’s the banality of investigating evil,” he told me, a variation of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase. The Painstaking Hunt for War Criminals in the United States 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z She references books, such as those by historian Anne Applebaum and political theorist Hannah Arendt, in framing her observations. Michiko Kakutani turns to Donald Trump and fake news in 'The Death of Truth' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z TBI says Brown remains incarcerated in jail on unrelated charges, and Arendt was arrested Wednesday and booked into jail on a $20,000 bond. Agents: Pair faked files for jailed man’s bogus doctor trips 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Totalitarianism, as Arendt famously wrote, eliminates the space between humans, turning them into One Man of gigantic proportions. How George Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, a refugee from Nazi Germany who knew quite a lot about how lies and chaos buttress fascism, has been finding new currency lately. Another week of lies and still Trump, the huckster, keeps his tawdry show going | Sarah Churchwell 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, the philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, put it this way: “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.” Opinion | Trump has performed a medical miracle on the Republican Party 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z In her 1954 essay The Crisis in Education, Hannah Arendt argued that authority was not patronising; it indicated that someone was taking responsibility. We went too far in toppling authority. Some is good for us | Eliane Glaser 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Wisely, too, Paterno doesn’t try to probe Sandusky’s psyche but keeps him in the background as a shadowy figure whose bland smile recalls Hannah Arendt’s famous judgement that Eichmann reflected “the banality of evil.” HBO's Paterno, with Al Pacino as famed coach, probes scars of Sandusky scandal 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt identified this as one of the effects of totalitarian propaganda: it makes everything conceivable because “nothing is true.” How George Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z But there is also genuine connection among many of these women — Malcolm's note of appreciation to a dying Sontag strikes a note of grace and respect, as does Arendt's tender treatment of a young Adler. The women who wielded a pen like a weapon: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “Arendt explains how one small sign happens after the other that no one cares about, and then you suddenly find yourself in hell,” she says. Emma Bonino: Italy's pro-Europe, pro-immigrant conscience 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The aim, as famously explained by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, is to confuse: to breed a combination of cynicism and gullibility. The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z His witty, densely argued essays analyzing Hannah Arendt, Derrida, and the French far right usually find a natural readership in places like the New York Review of Books or the Chronicle of Higher Education. Mark Lilla: the liberal who counts more enemies on the left than the right 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z As long as there are innocents in the world, my bets are on yes — writers, from Plato to Hannah Arendt, have wrestled with the banality of evil and how functionaries become accessories to murder. At Seattle’s Azeotrope, Robert Schenkkan’s ‘Building the Wall’ asks hard questions about Trump’s America 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This is, after all, another way of reading the message contained in the quote from Hannah Arendt inscribed over the fascist monument in Bolzano. A small Italian town can teach the world how to defuse controversial monuments | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This irony is not confined to Arendt’s times; indeed, it is becoming painfully obvious again, as refugees drown in the seas or rot in the camps at Europe’s borders. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust but now I want German citizenship 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z A jury of railway employees and historians narrowed the possibilities to 25 names, published last week, which also included Beethoven, Einstein, Karl Marx, Marlene Dietrich, and the philosopher Hannah Arendt, among other notable figures. German rail plan to name train after Anne Frank prompts outrage 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Arendt “stressed the simplicity and the ‘preposterous’ nature of ideas that underlie evil: these were ideas to be called out, not debated. My students heard a far-right politician on campus. Here's what they learned | Francine Prose 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z According to popular lore, part of what made totalitarianism so dangerous was its “politicization of everything,” but Hannah Arendt, who should know, insisted in a 1958 essay that the opposite was true. Why Is ‘Politicization’ So Partisan? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Two other defendants, Kimberly Arendt and Dean Smith, pleaded not guilty in October in a Jersey City court to 63 gun-related charges. Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to gun charges in Holland Tunnel case 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Dean Smith, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, and Kimberly Arendt, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, made deals with prosecutors earlier this year to avoid a trial. AP source: Anti-drug crusader to plead to weapons charge 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Arendt is particularly good on the insidious methods by which power is achieved for its own means. Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part one 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z For Arendt the mark of totalitarianism was the pervasive nature of ideological thinking. The right wing war on facts: The new partisan divide that’s destroying our nation 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z An expert on political theory and history, Dr. Boesche published several books, including “Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt” and “The Strange Liberalism of Alexis De Tocqueville.” Roger Boesche, professor who sparked future President Obama’s passion for politics, dies at 69 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Smith and Arendt entered a pretrial intervention program that could lead prosecutors to drop the charges against them, according to Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to gun charges in Holland Tunnel case 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt wrote in “The Human Condition,” privacy was once closely associated with “a state of being deprived of something, and even of the highest and most human of man’s capacities.” How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z In her review of “Major Trends,” Scholem’s friend turned adversary Hannah Arendt wrote that his work changed “the whole picture of Jewish history.” Opinion | ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’: Looking for the man who took Kabbalah mainstream 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Whistleblowers must benefit from real support because it is essential, as Hanna Arendt reminded, “to make space for civil disobedience in the operation of our public institutions”. Rebels with a cause: Africa's whistleblowers need urgent protection 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z I only realised the depth and value of the idea via Hannah Arendt, and her theory that all humanist politics starts on the assumption of the infinite preciousness of every human life. Sex bans, strength and solidarity: women’s strikes through the ages 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Two other defendants, Kimberly Arendt and Dean Smith, pleaded not guilty in October in a Jersey City court to 63 gun-related charges. Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to gun charges in Holland Tunnel case 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The philosopher Hannah Arendt memorably described citizenship as “the right to have rights”, but for people of migrant background such as myself, this is being eroded. The struggle to be British: my life as a second-class citizen 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z One needn’t posit an “eternal anti-Semitism,” in Hannah Arendt’s warning phrase, to know that the imagination of the West has always defined itself positively against the negative other of Jewishness. What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Anti-Semitism 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt famously talked about the “banality of evil”. PewdiePie thinks 'Death to all Jews' is a joke. Are you laughing yet? | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The political philosopher Hannah Arendt has written that the hyper-nationalism of totalitarianism depends on “an atomized and individualized mass.” Donald Trump's handshake: never has such a strong grip looked so weak | Moustafa Bayoumi 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Smith and Arendt entered a pretrial intervention program that could lead prosecutors to drop the charges against them, according to Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to gun charges in Holland Tunnel case 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Trump’s sensitivity to “Saturday Night Live” skits shows that this is fertile territory and, as Hannah Arendt argued, ridicule weakens the aura surrounding strongmen, undercutting their pretensions of greatness and history. Opinion | A president who rarely reads has launched a book club for all of America 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The great political thinker Hannah Arendt once dryly observed:“lies have always been regarded as necessary and justifiable tools … of the statesman’s trade.” Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Despite readers reaching for Hannah Arendt and George Orwell, strictly speaking, the comparison with fascism and communism isn’t true. Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter | Nick Cohen 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Today, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is No 1 on Amazon.com, while Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism has been selling at 16 times its normal rate since December. 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and was an academic until 1933, when she embarked on charity work, securing passage to Palestine for Jewish children and teenagers. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Oh, and Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” has been selling well. Opinion | A president who rarely reads has launched a book club for all of America 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It is these meta-lies that radically undermine confidence in the very institutions that, according to Arendt, distinguish a democracy from an authoritarian regime. Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Cramsey, Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt are facing weapons charges after they were stopped at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City last June. Man charged in tunnel weapons case marches against heroin 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Arendt, Cramsey, and a third suspect, identified as Dean Smith, 53, pleaded not guilty in October in a Jersey City court to 63 gun-related charges. Pennsylvania teen at center of Holland Tunnel gun incident dies 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z It seems clear, nonetheless, that it isn’t enough: that perhaps Arendt’s most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to consider oneself political as part of the human condition. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z During the year he spent at the U.S. detention facility in 2004, Arendt said it was clear that most of the detainees had relatively little valuable intelligence. Rights advocates warn of backlash if Trump pursues torture 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Arendt writes that what distinguishes democratic from authoritarian regimes is not the greater honesty of democratic politicians. Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Some observers have suggested in trepidation of Trump’s rise the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Trump's 'American Carnage' speech resembled an extended tweet | Sidney Blumental 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Liberals looking to feed their sense of alarm have been steered toward Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” and Philip Roth’s “Plot Against America.” Books for the Trump era 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z But the surprise hit – being long, complex and demanding or, as the online magazine Jezebel described it, “extremely metal” – is Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, first published in 1951. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Arendt, who was a guard when Begg was in Guantanamo, now works at a tattoo shop in Detroit but is still haunted by his experience at Guantanamo. Rights advocates warn of backlash if Trump pursues torture 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In our own time, amid what Hannah Arendt described as a “tremendous increase in mutual hatred and a somewhat universal irritability of everybody against everybody else”, this fragile self has become particularly vulnerable to ressentiment. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But at least the title of another volume by Arendt captures the tone of his inaugural address – The Banality of Evil. Trump's 'American Carnage' speech resembled an extended tweet | Sidney Blumental 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Truth “peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate,” Hannah Arendt pointed out in this magazine, in 1967, “and debate constitutes the very essence of political life.” The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Here, Arendt brings some liberating insight, described in precis by Professor Griselda Pollock, an expert in Arendt. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z All I knew about Washington Heights — because one of her students had been my philosophy professor in college — was that Hannah Arendt had lived there. Finding Washington Heights 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Arendt noted that Soviet terror surpassed Nazi terror in arbitrariness because not only were its laws arbitrary but the victims, too, were chosen arbitrarily. Donald Trump’s Political Prisoners 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, Hannah Arendt wrote a devastating critique of the Pentagon’s Vietnam-era penchant for policy by counting. Machine logic: our lives are ruled by big tech's 'decisions by data' 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z The others in the vehicle, Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt, were also charged. Man Arrested in Holland Tunnel Guns Case Is Freed on Bail 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet I see the sense of these arguments, and wonder, what would Hannah Arendt do? Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It is, as political theorist Hannah Arendt argued, “the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly.” Hillary Clinton’s short-circuited apology 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Surely, if I review the occasion in the spirit of a Hannah Arendt or a Victor Klemperer, some important link to the present moment will be uncovered. Memories of Trump’s Wedding 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Arendt didn’t attend Wednesday’s hearing and was enlisting a new attorney, who couldn’t be reached for comment. Bail cut denied for 2 arrested at tunnel with weapons cache 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith and Ms. Arendt were still being held on Thursday in lieu of $75,000 cash bail, Mr. Worrall said. Man Arrested in Holland Tunnel Guns Case Is Freed on Bail 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The work of Arendt’s that she refers to most often is the one that came directly after Origins, 1958’s The Human Condition. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z He and two friends Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt were stopped by police for driving with a cracked windscreen. Grieving US father on 'drugs rescue' raid - BBC News 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z So far, indications are that the population in the river is stable to slightly declining, said Mike Arendt, DNR wildlife biologist. Diamondback terrapin might be key to marsh health 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z I asked Arendt when he had learned that Bouvier was an art dealer. The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In her famous account of the trial, the philosopher Hannah Arendt described Eichmann as a small-minded functionary, more concerned with the managerial hows of his job than the moral or existential whys. Why Adolf Eichmann’s final message remains so profoundly unsettling | Giles Fraser 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Arendt called this idea the “banality of evil”—and it is that very idea that Eichmann rejects in his request. Nazi War Criminal's Plea for Pardon Is Made Public for First Time 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z As political theorist Hannah Arendt noted, thought is essential to understanding our human condition. Technology Is Destroying Our Inner Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z As American political philosopher Hannah Arendt said: “The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws … the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The New Year's Resolutions America Needs to Make 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z David Arendt, the manager, put a brave face on the trouble massing around his main investor. The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Philosopher Hannah Arendt argues that the proper mark of the public realm, its essential lure and attraction for us, is its claim to permanence. Malls of America: They may masquerade as public spaces — but they just want us to shop 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The Hannah Arendt Center describes a mordant joke “told during the Holocaust, especially amongst Jews in concentration camps”: “The Jews caused the Great War,” an anti-Semite tells his friend. Why the Bicyclists? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “I now understand what Hannah Arendt meant when she talked about ‘dark times.’ Nobel Writer Sees Politics Through Lens of Mistrust 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z “But on the other hand, when I do write something or have written something, I think of something Hannah Arendt wrote so wonderfully, about how it was the ‘calm good conscience of some limited achievement’. Brooklyn Book Festival: writers take on journalism, gender and policing 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z "Unfortunately, therapeutics specific for obese women with breast cancer are limited," Arendt and Kuperwasser wrote. Scientists Probe Obesity's Ties to Breast Cancer Risk 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z But instead of honoring Mr. Thompson, the arrangement seems an affront, and Arendt exposes the problem: the gesture toward permanence made by the developers in this case is incomplete, feeble, half-hearted. Malls of America: They may masquerade as public spaces — but they just want us to shop 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The videos are chilling – and bring to mind everything noted political theorist Hannah Arendt ever said about "the banality of evil." Planned Failure 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Svetlana started writing “Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea,” a zigzagging historical and philosophical tour from the ancient Greeks to Arendt. Postcript: Svetlana Boym, 1959–2015 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The philosopher Hannah Arendt concluded that evil lay in the refusal to think. 7 July London bombings: The world on a train, 10 years on - BBC News 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Arendt and Kuperwasser said that low oxygen in the denser tissues might be one explanation. Scientists Probe Obesity's Ties to Breast Cancer Risk 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z She wants a new law protecting freedom of speech and to open a center for art and activism named for the late political theorist Hannah Arendt. Cuban artist pushes boundary between art and politics, and pays a price 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of a Hannah Arendt thing,” he said. Solar Power for Everyone 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “Hannah Arendt said that if one German died in Auschwitz resisting Hitler, you can’t say the German nation was responsible for Nazism. I believe in that. But that applies to the Greek people as well.” A Finance Minister Fit for a Greek Tragedy? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z It is as if Hannah Arendt’s notion of the banality of evil had, in Breivik’s case, received an additional twist. Anders Breivik’s Inexplicable Crime 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He was a cog in the lethal machinery- a human example of what Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.” Editorials from around New England 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z When Miss Arendt, the social philosopher and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, conceived the idea of covering the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, she first approached Commentary magazine. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Hannah Arendt described the importance of “speech acts” in politics, warning against letting words and deeds get so far apart that the words become empty and the deeds become brutal. Enough with the f***ing rich kids: Our entitled, spoiled 1 percent is destroying everything 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z There were 35 people voting within an hour of the polls opening, according to longtime election judge Phil Arendt. Busy day at the polls: Missing judges, ballot confusion, steady lines of voters 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z As Hannah Arendt foresaw, we are once again up against the question of evil. The Islamic State is evil returned When a whole society is on the wrong track, as Hannah Arendt has pointed out, many will follow unthinkingly and do whatever the incentives and directives dictate. From CEO 'Takers' To CEO 'Makers': The Great Transformation 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The magazine told her it couldn't afford to send her; whereupon, one of Miss Arendt's friends, the novelist and New Yorker contributor Mary McCarthy, called Shawn. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z “We were all envisioning the mayor pulling up in a Subaru and taking an axe to it,” says Barbara Arendt, who spearheaded the library’s construction. What Do Kansas and Nebraska Have Against Small Libraries? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt said after the Holocaust that the question of evil was the major challenge of our times. The enigmatic war In the weekend Financial Times newspaper, the British writer Martin Amis tackled the question that obsessed Arendt and so many others — the nature of evil and its ultimate personification, Hitler. The Islamic State is evil returned "Even in the darkest of times," Hannah Arendt once wrote, "we have the right to expect some illumination." The new face of India 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z She subsequently assumed the Hannah Arendt visiting professorship of philosophy and political science at the New School for Social Research, in New York, where she lived and taught political theory for 25 years. International Education: A Scholar Is Back Home and Defiant in Hungary 2013-12-08T22:00:11Z But what many saw as a clear demonstration of unredeemable and deep-seated malice, these researchers interpreted as more, in the words of Hannah Arendt, banal. The Psychological Power of Satan 2013-10-29T13:15:00.387Z A few days ago I watched a new movie about the life of psychologist and political thinker Hannah Arendt and mulled over the “banality of evil” that Arendt made famous. Is psychology a "real" science? Does it really matter? 2013-08-13T23:15:11.203Z Arendt misread Eichmann, but she did hit on something broader about how ordinary people become brutal killers. ‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta 2013-05-24T15:52:47Z Perhaps, Arendt proposes, tau usually protects neurons, but malfunctions in the brains of people with Alzheimer's, analogous to an overreactive immune systems in people with autoimmune disorders. What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain's Resilience 2012-06-26T23:15:00.253Z Dr. Rachael Sotos, who teaches philosophy at Pace, contributed philosophical reflections on the notion of environmental citizenship examined through the prophetic political thought of German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt. Dot Earth Blog: Beyond Rio: Pursuing 'Ecological Citizenship' 2012-06-25T17:04:01Z In 1979, he was awarded an endowed chair at Rutgers and chose to name it after Hannah Arendt, the political theorist. Irving Louis Horowitz, Sociologist, Dies at 82 2012-03-26T04:16:48Z Now the banality of evil is not exactly rigorously quantifiable like the angular momentum of a figure skater, yet few people would deny that Arendt made an enormously valuable contribution to social science. Is psychology a "real" science? Does it really matter? 2013-08-13T23:15:11.203Z But a new movie about the episode, “Hannah Arendt,” which opens Wednesday at Film Forum, revives the debates and the era. ‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta 2013-05-24T15:52:47Z Recently, Arendt and Barnes collaborated on a study that further investigated tau proteins in hibernating ground squirrels, hamsters and black bears. What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain's Resilience 2012-06-26T23:15:00.253Z Those observations bring to mind Hannah Arendt’s famous description of “the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil” she observed in Adolf Eichmann, the high-ranking Nazi who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. The Lede: Syria?s First Couple and the Banality of E-Mail 2012-03-15T19:14:13Z His final book, “Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative,” was published this month. Irving Louis Horowitz, Sociologist, Dies at 82 2012-03-26T04:16:48Z And contrary to the notion derived from Hannah Arendt, most of the SS officials were not soulless technocrats — or as the German phrase has it, “desktop perpetrators” — but skillful bureaucrats driven by seething ideological hatreds. Books about Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich ? Review 2012-01-07T01:31:13Z He testified that he was just doing his job, unthinkingly, and Arendt believed him. ‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta 2013-05-24T15:52:47Z Thomas Arendt of the University of Leipzig in Germany thinks the answer may involve a protein named tau. What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain's Resilience 2012-06-26T23:15:00.253Z Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a philosopher, psychoanalyst and biographer known for her lives of two influential women, Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud, died on Thursday near her home in Toronto. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Who Probed Roots of Ideology and Bias, Dies at 65 2011-12-06T05:01:02Z My interest in it derives from a belief that every new generation of men and women possesses the power to open up fresh possibilities of political thinking and action -- what Hannah Arendt often called “natality.” Islamists Electoral Rise Due to Failed Secularism: Pankaj Mishra 2011-12-02T04:10:30Z Thus it fell about with rich Heinrich Arendt from L�beck. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z And here was the great scholar Hannah Arendt downplaying their great catch and airing their dirty laundry. ‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta 2013-05-24T15:52:47Z The next morning, when Arendt Fehrson arrived with his twenty men, he was told that his guest had been missing since the evening before, and that no one knew whither he was gone. The Boy's Book of Heroes 2011-09-06T02:00:10.323Z However, as Hannah Arendt argued in “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” every machine part is of crucial importance. Op-Ed Contributor: Demjanjuk in Munich 2011-05-17T02:27:52Z This is the right tone, since she accuses Arendt of writing with distorting anger and inexcusable carelessness. Why the Eichmann Trial Really Mattered 2011-04-08T22:56:16Z Their ranks included the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York 2011-03-08T03:40:56Z Some of the attacks on Arendt — that she sympathized with Eichmann or demonized the Jewish victims more than their Nazi killers — were over the top. ‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta 2013-05-24T15:52:47Z Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for the magazine and senior fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. The Way We Live Now: Scanners Gone Wild 2010-12-03T14:04:00Z Thus Arendt found that the assimilation of nitrogen is checked by cold wet weather; while, on the other hand, it is promoted by warm dry weather. Manures and the principles of manuring To write about the trial of Adolf Eichmann is to put its most notorious court reporter, Hannah Arendt, in the dock. Why the Eichmann Trial Really Mattered 2011-04-08T22:56:16Z But about five o'clock the pain in the abdomen became intolerable, and its force mastered the strength of his soul: he began to groan; they again sent for Arendt. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Arendt, when he learned of how his expected victim had fled, was furiously angry with his wife, and, as we are told, never forgave her and refused ever to set eyes on her again. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. To the question, "How is he?"—Arendt answered me, "He is very bad; he will infallibly die." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Of these, those carried out by Arendt are the most elaborate and best known. Manures and the principles of manuring After recounting the trial so vividly, Lipstadt recounts the aftermath — a discussion that inevitably centers on Arendt. Why the Eichmann Trial Really Mattered 2011-04-08T22:56:16Z Arendt assured me confidently that all was over, and that he could not live out the day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 But Arendt found others who were less scrupulous and in the early morning returned to his home heading twenty men, collected to aid him in the capture of his unsuspecting guest. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. Before Arendt's departure, he said to him, "Beg the Emperor to pardon me." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Arendt now departed, leaving him to the care of Spásskii, the family physician, who, during that whole night, never quitted the bedside. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 "I have been in thirty battles," said Dr Arendt; "I have seen numbers of dying men; but I have very seldom seen any thing like this." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 |
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