While visiting Paris, I was staying in the Hannah Arendt Square.
This I really appreciated.
I like her a lot, but she was v. much a product of her time.
Her political thought is very important; but her work vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the “banality of evil” (in her exposure to Eichmann’s trial) was more of an accident.
Her Banality of Evil on the Eichmann trial was a very apt description. I like her. I have the book and have read it more than once.
ReplyDeleteI haven't touched the subject in a while, but it is a profound insight.
DeleteMore people need to read and understand Hannah Arendt these days.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
DeleteHannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German American philosopher and political theorist renowned for her profound insights into the nature of power, evil, and totalitarianism. Born in Hanover, Germany, she fled Nazi persecution and eventually settled in the United States, where she became a prominent intellectual figure. What I can find from google search.
ReplyDeleteHaha, yep. Amazing how much we have at our fingertips.
DeleteHaven't heard of the lady but will look her up and read.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look her up and read more about her.
ReplyDeleteI just found a wonderful Arendt quote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
ReplyDeleteHmm, it's an interesting quote. Isn't it.
DeleteDid you all really read H. Arendts work ?
ReplyDeleteI am sure none of you opened one of her books. The banality of evil is just a small part and the only thing constantly repeated .
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And the only quote that's constantly misinterpreted. "Banality, in this sense, does not mean that Eichmann's actions were in any way ordinary, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional." (Wikipedia) And no, I haven't read any of her books.
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