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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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A Review of Hannah Arendt's On Revolution ; What is Required to Uproot Oppression?
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Steve Riggins, Software Deveoper
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Hannah Arendt hat kein in sich widerspruchsfreies theoretisches System geschaffen, und sie l t sich nicht auf eine einmalige Eindeutigkeit festlegen.
Hannah Arendt hat sich ausdr cklich auf diese grundlegende Einsicht bezogen.
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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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Witness Hannah Arendt, the philosopher-author who was assigned to cover the trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann by the New Yorker.
We see the sequence most clearly in Hannah Arendt's description of how European brutality in the colonies was eventually carried back to Europe itself.
" Hannah Arendt's famous expression "the banality of evil" aptly conveys this recognition; violent and destructive acts may be tragically more ordinary than we care to admit.
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Astrid Schuhmann, Backpacker
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Eines der Probleme Hannah Arendts war es, da ihr die theoretische Anerkennung, die ihr eigentlich zugestanden h tte, teilweise versagt geblieben ist, weil sie eine Frau war.
Ich m chte noch auf eine andere Herausforderung im Denken Hannah Arendts eingehen, einem Denken, das selbst immer eine Herausforderung zum Denken war.
Jedoch liegt Hannah Arendts St rke darin begr ndet, da sie im Gegensatz zu vielen heutigen Intellektuellen in einem Punkt zentral Recht behielt: und das war in ihrem Verst ndnis des Totalitarismus gleich welcher Pr gung.
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David Rosenberg, Dermatologist
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And a few paragraphs later: "I thought they had gotten over the disgrace with the establishment of Israel, but here was Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem saying that they had not.
Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann in Jerusalem: the Banality of Evil, said that the trouble with Eichmann was that so many were like him and the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, but terribly and terrifyingly normal.
Hannah Arendt referred to the attack on her Eichmann in Jerusalem as an assault on "a book that was never written.
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