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The Puzzle of Hannah Arendt
The career of Hannah Arendt is surely one of the oddest on record. Doubt has been cast on claims for which she was best known. Yet her posthumous prestige as a political theorist seems largely unaffected by any refutations of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's Spoiling One's Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Arendt and Heidegger, Arendt in social life, Arendt’s coverup, Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt’s excuses for Heidegger, Arendt’s Heidegger at 80, Arendt’s insight in her own case, Arendt’s personal survival smarts, Arendt’s self-concern, denying evil, denying evil as reality, denying guilt, Eichmann as ordinary bureaucrat, Eichmann’s conscience, Eichmann’s lack of regret, evil as banal, evil not banal, excuses for evil, excusing evil, excusing guilt, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt’s career, Heidegger and Husserl, Heidegger bans Jewish students, Heidegger betrays Husserl, Heidegger's Jewish students, Heidegger’s ingratitude to Husserl, history and reality, history's real stories, in Arendt’s own case evil is not banal, influencing public opinion, intellectual career, intellectual woman, just following orders, misdeeds without regret, moral insight as an aid to survival, moral relativism, moral transgressions, Nazis directing the Holocaust, political theorist, pretending innocence, psychological determinism, public acclaim and posthumous prestige, rewriting history, senior Nazi official, sleeping with the enemy, Stangneth’s Eichmann Before Jerusalem, strategies of the Holocaust, student/teacher affair, survival and moral insight, the excuse of following orders, the real Hannah Arendt
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Philosophy’s Refugees
Last night, I finished reading David Edmond’s book, the one subtitled The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, to which he gave the more sensational title, The Murder of Professor Schlick. Moritz Schlick was in his forties when he … Continue reading →
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