Arts & Letters Daily search results for “arendt” (37)
2023-01-05 | Richard Bernstein considered Arendt, Rorty, and Habermas not just philosophical interlocutors. They were also his friends more »
2020-10-19 | We all experience loneliness, but we experience it differently. For Hannah Arendt, it was the essence of totalitarianism more »
2021-12-29 | Hannah Arendt’s work is fundamentally about the discovery of human freedom and its gradual disappearance more »
2011-01-01 | In 1940, Hannah Arendt wrote to Gershom Scholem about the suicide of their friend Walter Benjamin. The often adversarial correspondence continued for more than a decade more »
2017-06-02 | The friendship of Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt ended over questions of good, evil, and historical responsibility. Their argument continues to be relevant more »
2017-09-11 | What happened to the public intellectual? She became a partisan. Hannah Arendt warned about translating philosophical insight into political commitment more »
2016-08-16 | Female thinkers have rarely been cinematic subjects. But recent films about Hannah Arendt have raised the question: How should a woman in philosophy be portrayed? more »
2021-10-18 | “The way Hannah Arendt lived her life will always be more instructive than the ideas she deduced from it.” more »
2021-08-09 | Hannah Arendt gave little thought to her own influence. “Men always want to be influential,” she said. “I want to understand” more »
2021-06-09 | Much has been made of Heidegger’s influence on Arendt. What about her influence on him? more »
2013-06-01 | Arendt biographer Elzbieta Ettinger saw herself in her subject. Each fled the Nazis, was cut off from her native culture, and fell for a famous professor more »
2015-07-10 | Hannah Arendt, pariah. Her life, ideas, and writings isolated her from the intellectuals of her day. They also made her uniquely cosmopolitan more »
2015-08-31 | “Men of high intelligence and sensibility,” it was said, tended to be enchanted by Hannah Arendt. Hans Morgenthau was no exception more »
2021-07-21 | Our fact-challenged times have inspired a cottage industry testifying to the prescience of Hannah Arendt. But what was she actually saying? more »
2015-12-30 | The plight of the German-Jewish intellectual. For Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Gershom Scholem, “love of Israel” was a complicated issue more »
2016-03-11 | Hannah Arendt tends to be seen as a quintessentially European thinker. But she became an American citizen in 1951. And America changed her more »
2021-10-20 | Hannah Arendt was Princeton’s first female faculty hire, and later its first female full professor — honors she was profoundly uninterested in more »
2021-11-06 | Hannah Arendt’s life was marked by three escapes: from a Gestapo cell in Berlin, from an internment camp in France, and from Heidegger more »
2020-10-26 | Hannah Arendt is the most used and abused philosophical source to interpret American politics. Sam Moyn explains more »
2021-05-13 | She was born in Germany; he was born in Newark. Their differences were obvious. But Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth had common cause more »
2013-03-01 | Heil Heidegger! He embraced Nazism and dumped his Jewish lover, Hannah Arendt. So why did she help rehabilitate his reputation after the war? more »
2017-05-04 | Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil: Critics saw them as "pitiless," "icy," "clinical." They pursued heartlessness as an intellectual style more »
2016-05-28 | We remember her German years, but the current climate demands a different Hannah Arendt, one we have forgotten: philosopher of statelessnes more »
2016-08-02 | A philosophy of education. Influenced by Hegel and Darwin, John Dewey launched a revolution that overthrew the methods of the day. Hannah Arendt was not pleased more »
2010-01-01 | Having escaped from Germany in 1933, Hannah Arendt stayed for the rest of her life loyal to the philosophic tradition that had helped lead to Hitlerism more »
2019-03-22 | Hannah Arendt knew that being human in inhuman times is hard, occasionally impossible work. She is a thinker of the difficult, a thinker for now more »
2020-03-09 | Hannah Arendt recognized that thinking is not necessarily a moral activity but can function as a brake on the temptation to do wrong more »
2018-06-29 | What do Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, and Susan Sontag have in common? They'd all have delighted in eviscerating a new group biography of them more »
2017-06-24 | Fraud, lies, and the importance of the group. Via attachment theory, Arendt, and Milgram, a former cult member considers the psychology of brainwashing more »
2023-05-11 | Hannah Arendt is hardly an icon of gay culture. So how was it that she helped to shape American gay identity? more »
2013-10-09 | ?You came to New York to be a mad black queen,' Elizabeth Hardwick told a young Daryl Pinckney, who became a writer and a friend to Arendt, McCarthy, Sontag more »
2010-01-01 | Academic reputations are often made by pygmies who, while standing on the shoulders of giants, try to cut heroic figures down to size. Look what they are doing to Hannah Arendt more »
2018-07-24 | Extremism is too often seen as a foreign threat — an infection from an alien civilization. As Hannah Arendt knew, it grows out of a local problem: loneliness more »
2017-05-19 | Norman Podhoretz was everywhere: Arendt’s New Year’s Eve party, Capote’s Black and White Ball. He was the wonder boy of the name-dropping circuit. Then he was cast out more »
2019-09-12 | In the 1920s, Arendt was Heidegger’s “wood nymph.” When they met again in 1949, she found him childish and dishonest, a recluse lost in the hills more »
2018-04-14 | For Hannah Arendt, thinking was a form of political engagement. She didn't just want to find a place for herself in the world. She wanted to change it more »
2018-08-23 | Is your dream version of yourself a drily witty, slightly abrasive woman in a black turtleneck reading Sontag, Didion, and Arendt? This is the book for you more »