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Hannah Arendt • Hannah Arendt Quote
Diana M. Smith • Putting an end to political nonsense
Moreover, for Arendt, it is when everyday people lose their capacity for internal dialogue and deliberation, and find themselves only able to regurgitate slogans and contradictory platitudes, that great evil occurs. So, too, when people lose the ability to imagine the perspectives of others, or as she put it in her essay “Truth and Politics,” “maki
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." --Hannah Arendt
When Foucault imagined life as a work of art he imagined an art object. Arendt, in contrast, imagined life as a narrative, authored by the social collectivity rather than by the lone individual.