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By Hannah Arendt, Peter Baehr

A number of writings via a groundbreaking political philosopher, together with excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem

She was once a Jew born in Germany within the early 20th century, and he or she studied with the best German minds of her day—Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers between them. After the increase of the Nazis, she emigrated to the US the place she proceeded to jot down essentially the most looking out, hard-hitting reflections at the agonizing problems with the time: totalitarianism in either Nazi and Stalinist apparel; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated tuition desegregation and civil rights within the usa; and the character of evil.
 
The transportable Hannah Arendt bargains big excerpts from the 3 works that ensured her overseas and enduring stature: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. also, this quantity comprises numerous different provocative essays, in addition to her correspondence with different influential figures.

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GAUS: For the conquered as well . . ARENDT: Right! ARENDT: 19 " Wh a t R e m a i n s ? T h e L a ng u ag e R e m a i n s " Wenn des Liedes Stimmen schweigen Von dem uberwundnen Mann, So will ich fur Hectorn zeugen . . [lf the voices of song are silent For him who has been vanquished, I myself will testify for Hector. . po Isn't that right? That's what Homer did. Then came Herodotus, who spoke of "the great deeds of the Greeks and the barbarians. " All of science comes from this spirit, even modem science, and the science of history too.

T h e L a ng u ag e R e m a i n s " 7 journals-in short, the sort of thing that doesn't become known in foreign countries. " No Zionist could do this, be­ cause if he were found out, the whole organization would be exposed. . " I was very happy. First of all, it seemed a very intelligent idea to me, and second, it gave me the feeling that something could be done after all. GAUS: Were you arrested in connection with this work? ARENDT: Yes. I was found out. I was very lucky. I got out after eight days because I made friends with the official who arrested me.

That's how it was. But we were young. I even had a little fun with it-I can't deny it. But not this. This was something completely different. Personally I could . accept everything else. ARENDT: More or less. And today, now that things are back on track, the distance I feel has become greater than it was before, when I experi­ enced things in that highly emotional state. GAUS: Because conditions here got back on track too quickly in your opinion? ARENDT: Yes. And often on a track to which I do not assent.

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