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12 Oct 2007, 10:20 am
"Reading his site with an awareness of what he participated in 14 years ago, reading him describe the murders as "an adolescent choice," I could think of little more than the term Hannah Arendt coined with reference to Adolf Eichmann: the banality of evil. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 3:38 am
Except as Hannah Arendt has powerfully argued those rights, specifically their effective protection is contingent on the fundamental right to have rights, in particular, rights that are expressive of belonging to a political community and performative in lawmaking, determining and enforcing processes. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 7:45 am
The latter surveys political thinkers such as Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt, all of whom worked to defend democracy. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 5:15 pm
Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" has sometimes been run into the ground, but I believe it's merited with regard to the former Mayor's (and would-be future President's) stupid comment. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 2:08 pm
One can imagine an experience machine that put one in a universe with a better moral order than the one we happen to live in, perhaps Tolkein's universe, or Hannah Arendt's for those of you from the Upper West Side. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 10:50 am
As for Heidegger -- no one who loves Arendt's work as much as we both do can afford not to take him seriously. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 9:36 am
It recalls Hannah Arendt's tedious point about the banality of Adolph Eichmann's evil, the sort of point that could only be made by the sort of person who was excessively dazzled by cultural accomplishment in the first place. [read post]
8 May 2012, 10:27 am
Here's Daniel Pipes reviewing the "25 Years Later" republication, in 1991: Arguing that the United States had been betrayed by its elite, it is a classic in what Hannah Arendt has called "backstairs political literature. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 1:49 pm
Speaker #2: basically paced back and forth telling us how evil Eichmann was and how Hannah Arendt's "the Banality of Evil" was completely baseless. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
” If Goldhagen is right, then Hannah Arendt may have been naively accepting the excuses that Nazis offered for their atrocities rather than shedding light on what drove them. [read post]
13 May 2015, 4:30 am
When Heidegger wasn’t busy canoodling with Hannah Arendt or cheerleading for the Nazi party, he wrote perhaps the preeminent work of 20th Century philosophy. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 4:28 am
Here is my list of 50 or so authors who (to the best of my knowledge) had no dates associated with their lives:Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.Amis, Kingsley, 1922-1995.Angelou, Maya, 1928-2014.Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.Auchincloss, Louis, 1917-2010.Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.Behan, Brendan, 1923-1964.Bellow, Saul, 1915-2005.Bourjaily, Vance Nye, 1922-2010.Brown, Dee Alexander, 1908-2002.Calisher, Hortense, 1911-2009.Calvino, Italo, 1923-1985.Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004.Cheever, John,… [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 9:49 am
The specific context in which Hannah Arendt coined that phrase was to describe Adolph Eichmann, after she had observed his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, but the phrase now carries with it the danger of confirming Godwin's Law. [read post]
9 May 2024, 4:00 am
First there are MAGA true believers, whose cult-like devotion to Trump is best explained by the likes of Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 2:20 pm
Such rule is like Hannah Arendt's definition of bureaucracy: "rule by no one. [read post]
7 May 2011, 9:40 am
Even the most rights-conscious observers of trials from Nuremberg to the Eichmann and Arusha/Hague tribunals have consistently noted that certain atrocities “explode the limits of law” and “transcend the domain of human affairs” (these quotes from Hannah Arendt). [read post]
31 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Election denialism corrodes democracy by creating uncertainty about factual truth and by fomenting an environment poised for political violence.Such corrosion, as we are reminded by Samantha Rose, biographer of Hannah Arendt, the great 20th-century political scientist, marks the path on which totalitarianism travels.The legal profession has a responsibility not to endorse such conduct, even if firms think it can help their bottom line.Lawyers, Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th… [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 4:00 am
That is, with what Hannah Arendt famously called the “banality of evil”, where the actor seeks to do a good job, not evil, but the good job results in the most enormous evil imaginable. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 10:28 pm
Hannah Arendt (1968) Walter Benjamin (1936), “Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit”, Frankfurt/Main 1963, p.15 (transl.http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm) Marcel Broodthaers (interviewed by Freddy de Vree, 1971) repr. in “Broodthaers”, Koeln (1994), p. 93 Ulises Carrión , “The New Art of Making Books”, Kontexts no. 6-7, 1975 and repr. in Guy Schraenen: “We have won! [read post]
19 Jan 2014, 4:33 pm
That’s why Hannah Arendt called bureaucracy “rule by Nobody…tyranny without a tyrant. [read post]
