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Sep 5, 2024 · That resistance persists today, and is at the forefront of Ada Ushpiz’s documentary, Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.
Aug 17, 2024 · Brilliant and controversial, Hannah Arendt was a German-trained political theorist who became one of America’s most prominent intellectuals and whose books exerted a major impact on political theory. Arendt was the first woman to become a full professor at Princeton University.
Aug 21, 2024 · The Human Condition, published in 1958, was a wide-ranging and systematic treatment of what Arendt called the vita activa (Latin: “active life”). She defended the classical ideals of work, citizenship, and political action against what she considered a debased obsession with mere welfare.
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Aug 31, 2024 · Hannah Arendt focuses on loneliness in her analysis of the origins of totalitarianism. “What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world,” Arendt argues, “is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday ...
Sep 2, 2024 · In her philosophical evolution we can see how the conception of evil is transmuted from a radical evil to an evil linked to banality, instrumentality, and lack of active thinking. The resignification of evil arises in her work on Eichmann.
Aug 27, 2024 · Though he never wrote anything down himself, he led what Arendt herself famously formulated as the vita activa - or the “active life” - in which he spoke truth to power, at least as he identified it, and called into question accepted dogma of the day.
Aug 29, 2024 · Arendt keeps Plato’s company throughout her life despite rejecting his vision of politics. It is part of her cultura animi. Humanities can and should take many different forms with their own irreducible criteria, but I believe pearl-diving to be among the most promising and meaningful ones.
