Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. But thinking about the people that might go to this website and look for a set of books to introduce them to a thinker, I asked myself what the books were that made me fall in love with Hannah Arendt as a thinker and which included her most beautiful writing. Please try again. The day after the Gestapo released her. She’s still not as recognized in Germany today as she could be. A must read. From where I’m sitting Simone de Beauvoir’s pretty smart. She graphically described … Hannah Arendt was an US philosopher and political theorist. For Jaspers thinking was very worldly, and about constituting the world in common. by Hannah Arendt She was the first woman to be offered such a position at Princeton. The lonely are particularly vulnerable to ideological thinking in whatever form it might take. It has some of the early work on Marx that was never published, some of her essays of cultural criticism, some book reviews. I also spent a year at The Institute for Social Research at The Institute for Philosophy at Goethe University. Another good title. If you just want to know about Totalitarianism, get the volume only containing that portion. It’s the same year that she meets and marries her first husband, Günther Anders. She’s wrestling with these terms in order to begin to understand the contemporary moment that she’s writing about. That said, it was not only racism which gave us totalitarianism, it was also the quest for a classless society. It was published in 1982 and remains the go-to Arendt biography. I taught an introductory course on Arendt two years ago using this as the main text, and it was a wonderful way of getting a general sense of who Hannah Arendt was, but it also includes all of her major concepts, categories, and terms, her distinction between labour, work, and action, and her understanding of freedom. She attended his classes on Plato and Aristotle and his lectures on thinking, and, of course, they had what is now an infamous romantic relationship. This is a collection of essays about people she was close to, and also some people she wasn’t so close to, but who had a significant impact upon her intellectual development, such as Rosa Luxemburg, whom she actually went to see once with her mother at a rally. In the biography, is that the framing idea, that that’s what was driving Arendt, or is that too simplistic? She was also studying Greek and Latin. Arendt writes about the decline of the nation state, the privatisation of public political institutions. Fake news is nothing new in politics. It’s quite an unusual mix to have a philosopher who is also a poet. At that time Arendt was a journalist writing for newspapers, mostly book reviews. 3 She rejected that label probably most famously in her televised interview in 1964 with Günter Gaus, where she says that she’s a political theorist. She believed in personal responsibility. After Origins was published in 1951, she was offered a lectureship at Princeton University. Adorno is also somebody who’s very important for me. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2020. A defining figure in German literature, Goethe coined the concept of world literature. She discusses worldly alienation in the modern age. The first depicts the Mossad’s abduction of Eichmann. They took a train through Spain and on to Lisbon where they stayed for about three months. No Kindle device required. Ah, yes. The first question is, ‘how can we protect spaces of freedom?’; the second question is, ‘is there a way of thinking that is not tyrannical?’ I begin with The Origins of Totalitarianism because it’s a study of the various elements that crystallized in the appearance of totalitarianism in the 20th century. So where did she go on to study after that? Read She’s thinking about how the different parts fit together. They finally made it to the United States, arriving in New York City on May 22nd, 1941. by Hannah Arendt She was curious to understand, and because it wasn’t an outright rejection and, instead, she tried to understand why someone like Heidegger could become a Nazi, I think she often gets read as being an apologist for him. Yes, it’s men and women in dark times, but Arendt always used “man.” The title for this book is taken from Bertolt Brecht’s great poem, ‘An die Nachgeborenen’, which is translated as ‘To Posterity’ or ‘To Those who Come After’ which begins, ‘Wirklich, ich lebe in finisteren Zeiten!’ (‘Really, I’m living in dark times’). From what I know about her, I don’t think she would have thought of herself as vulnerable in a personal or emotional sense. Yes. You can find her writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Seminar, OpenDemocracy, Theory & Event, Contemporary Political Theory, and The South Atlantic Quarterly. Men in Dark Times It was edited by Jerome Kohn, who was one of Hannah Arendt’s students. Right-wing Violence In The Western World Since World War Ii, The Epic Split – Why ‘Made in China’ is going out of style. She writes about our inability to distinguish fact from fiction. There is her essay on Bertolt Brecht and the Brecht controversy and how we hold poets accountable, her essay on Walter Benjamin and how he wasn’t a poet but rather a poetic thinker. She is a conceptual thinker. Yes, she was a Zionist. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2015. Arendt actually started reading Kant in her father’s library after his death and was pretty well-versed in his work by the time she was 14. It is true that Arendt’s theory of totalitarianism focused more on the concentration camps and less on the death camps, but this in no way stemmed from a “suppression” of the crimes. Find all the books, read about the author and more. She did all those things. Can one do evil without being evil? Her chapter on “Labor” begins, “In the following chapter, Karl Marx will be criticized.”. The print quality is terrible. In 1922-23, Arendt began her studies (in classics and Christian theology) at the University of Berlin, and in 1924 entered Marburg University, where she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger. Arendt disagrees with Marx’s elevation of labor as the fundamental activity of the human condition. But when we see the boundaries between private, social and public collapsing, when we see the politicization of private life, for Arendt that’s a red flag that totalitarianism is emerging. You see it on the bookshelf and it’s hard not to pick it up. Maybe we should get on to the five books because that will tell the story another way, but before that, just tell us where your amazingly detailed knowledge of Arendt comes from. So, if the list of books I gave you is being picked up by somebody who is completely new to Hannah Arendt, I would probably give them Thinking Without a Banister first because that way they can play, they can pop around, they can explore, they can get a sense of her language and her concepts and categories and then go back to Origins and The Human Condition, which are her two major works about the emergence of totalitarianism and freedom and protecting spaces of freedom. Wow. Not what I was expecting. Yes, but that is the German sense of philosophy as being metaphysics. It depends where you’re looking from, I guess. The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets. Hannah Arendt . So, her mom sent her to Berlin to finish her studies and prepare for her Abitur exam. They held her for eight days, and she fled the next day with her mother, first to Prague, then Switzerland, then Paris. What about the next book, Men in Dark Times? Not unlike Simone de Beauvoir. He influenced her thinking in a number of ways, but she also disagreed with him profoundly. It doesn’t really feel that way! She had all sorts of ‘illnesses’ as she was growing up, just to get out of going to school so that she could stay at home, study alone, and be with her mother. The Origins of Totalitarianism When I’m lecturing on Hannah Arendt these days people usually laugh when I say that truth and politics have never been on good terms with one another, and that the lie has always been a justified tool in political dealings. She took classes with Ralph Mannheim and was working on her habilitation, Rahel Vahnhagen: the Life of a Jewish woman, which was intended to be a critique of German Romanticism and Jewish assimilation. Her first teaching job was at Brooklyn College, teaching a history course on modern European history as an adjunct lecturer. How will your biography differ from this one? Everyone still capable of rational thought and logic should read this. Everything is taking on a new colour. When was it published? When you asked me to pick the five best books, I thought about the word ‘best’ and it felt like a sacrifice not to include Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil on the list. “She says that loneliness is the underlying cause of all totalitarian movements. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. The poems are scheduled to appear in 2021. The space of the four walls is necessary. What you also get in this book is a sense of Arendt’s poetics and her engagement with poets. I had been wandering around the library looking for Erich Fromm’s book, Marx’s Concept of Man and somehow I found The Human Condition. What’s her angle? She’s not recognized in the way Adorno is, for example. I was very aware that I didn’t understand anything she was talking about, but I desperately wanted to understand. It is full of interviews that give you a sense of her as a person, conversations where she’s teasing out what she meant by ‘the banality of evil’—most readers of Arendt are familiar with that phrase, even if they haven’t read Eichmann. As Arendt puts it, she did not share Marx’s great faith in capitalism. With all the scary things happening in the world, it's good to have a historical basis to understand what is going on. Marx and Freud are also very important for me. by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Hardly readable, just terrible. 2 She is the author of two forthcoming books: Hannah Arendt, a biography, and Hannah Arendt’s Poems. Do you ever wonder if people will look back on our time and think about the public intellectuals we have today and their milieus in the same way that we look back upon those of Paris in the 1930s? One of Arendt’s earliest articles, “We Refugees”, was published in an obscure Jewish periodical in 1943. © 2008-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harvest Book Book 244). Yes, I did, together with the picture of the actual entry. Just a cheap photocopy of a library book, perhaps illegally copied, or stolen. Samantha Rose Hill of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College talks us through Hannah Arendt's life and work—and suggests which books to read if we want to learn more about her and her ideas. Hannah Arendt . He’d told her that thinking had come to life in the classroom when Heidegger discussed Plato and Aristotle. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Is that what she’s saying, that you have to think anew about where you sit in relation to relations of power and authority, but you’re stuck with a lot of the building blocks that your predecessors used? 5 The second follows a silent Hannah Arendt as she lights, and then … This is a really wonderful book. We need new language; we need new concepts to understand the world today. They met at a masquerade ball in Berlin, at a fundraiser for a Marxist magazine. But I don’t see that as an apologia. “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to … She writes about the rise of what today we would call ‘fake news’ and political propaganda. So, this is a playful flip of amor fati—’the love of fate.’ She’s thinking about what it means to build the world in common, poiesis, the fabrication of the world that we collectively make through language, through architecture, through art, through sculpture, through building. She was part of a mass escape with sixty-two other women, which was made possible by the German front approaching. We live together with one another. It turns us back against ourselves in a dangerous way that leads us down rabbit holes in thinking that make it impossible for us to judge and to tell the difference between fact and fiction. It’s quite long. Why loneliness? Ideology, or ideological propaganda, provides simple solutions for complex human problems that feed that hunger, that need for place and meaning. Let’s move on to the books you’ve chosen by or about Hannah Arendt. What always strikes me is that Hannah Arendt saw the worst her century had to offer, and her question was how to love the world. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. It’s an attempt to grapple with and fully understand the actions of somebody she was close to”, There, she wrote small articles and book reviews and worked on the Rahel book. So, loneliness fundamentally compromises our ability to think and our ability to judge. There are also essays on Heidegger and her essay on W H Auden. And then Men in Dark Times is really a collection of humanistic essays about what it was like to be alive in the 20th century, about poetry and conversation and—very importantly for Arendt—friendship. Controversial and opinionated, she commented on current events. Is there a book by Jaspers that you would recommend as accessible to a general reader? It is an edited volume, which I think is a great introductory overview to Hannah Arendt’s work. It’s where he took his daily constitutionals that the housewives of Königsberg set their clocks to. I think she’s turning away from any kind of transcendent philosophy to think about materiality and to think about how we might orient ourselves in the present. The German-American philosopher was one of the great political thinkers of the 20th century. So for almost 20 years of my life now, I have been reading Hannah Arendt. Unimpressed by the response of philosophers to the rise of Nazism in her native Germany, Hannah Arendt rejected the notion of being a philosopher and said she was a political theorist. She and Blücher were both told to report for internment. We have to think with them; but we also can’t just rely upon them as frameworks for understanding. She didn’t think she was that smart. Let’s move on to the second book, The Human Condition, which you’ve already said was the one that drew you to Arendt. by Hannah Arendt I don’t know if I would say that’s Young-Bruehl’s framing mechanism for the biography. They had little money and she signed up through a relief organization to become a housekeeper with a family in Massachusetts for the summer so that she could learn English. Importantly, for Arendt, loneliness also means that we are not only cut off from conversation with others, but we’re cut off from having conversation with ourselves. And I would recommend his three volume work Philosophy, which is important for Arendt’s thinking. I reviewed Thinking Without a Banister when it was published in 2018 for the LA Review of Books. Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential philosophers of the 20th century. Hannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. Her writing provokes me to thinking, and if I’m completely honest the thinker I feel closest to is Walter Benjamin. Yes. Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. This biography a wonderful telling of Arendt’s life. But she was primarily a writer and public speaker, and she travelled quite a bit. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2018. But that doesn’t mean we can just get rid of the old concepts like ‘authority’, ‘freedom’ ‘justice’, or ‘the good life’ . She turns away from philosophy after the burning of the Reichstag, and then, when she returns to philosophy in The Life of the Mind, her final work, she engages in what she calls ‘the dismantling of metaphysics’. I think it was in a 1972 panel discussion that she says something like, ‘I’m not a Marxist. Hannah Arendt is somebody whom I think with, but I don’t always agree with her. He gave grandiloquent speeches honoring the Führer. Read. She’s somebody that I think with. She didn’t want one, and it wasn’t until later in her life that she was offered a permanent position from The New School. And she doesn’t favour drawing analogies with the past in order to understand the current situation, but we also, in some sense, carry those gems with us, those conceptual ideas like ‘the good’ and we have to rethink them as a traditional problem of metaphysics. After a bit of research I've ordered the Harvest Book version but received a Mariner books edition. Then she made her way to Montauban, which was a well-known meet-up point, and she accidentally ran into her second husband, Heinrich Blücher, walking down the street one afternoon. But I don’t see that as an apologia. When we experience loneliness, we’re hungry, desperate for meaning and connection. In German she titled it Activa oder Vom tätigen Leben, which translated means the Life of Action. Is it a fixed thing which you can rely on being there, like the foundational elements of thought are for Descartes, some rock bottom that you hit? And she writes about the necessity of solitude and the dangers of loneliness. She never spoke about it that way, and was very reluctant to use that kind of language. We can’t just reflexively rely upon them in our thinking. You’ve devoted a lot of time to studying Hannah Arendt. These are thinkers I also return to, to hold on to something in my own thinking. These essays are so intimate that I think they make themselves available to any reader, and offer portraits of some of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century. Where are we heading. Given the ever growing numbers of stateless peoples and refugees, this book is a vital reminder why recent generations instituted declarations of international human rights and why laws were created to accord refugees and the stateless rights under the law in our societies. Faced with the rise of National Socialism, Arendt put down Rahel Varnhagen and turned away from philosophy. Hannah Arendt was a very versatile thinker, but by no means a philosopher of education. And so how do we try to understand that which is incomprehensible? The other day I was teaching The Human Condition and a student called me an Arendtian. A Jewish understanding based on wide ranging research and personal experience. (Students need to pass their Abitur to graduate high school and attend university.) Hannah Arendt "Zur Person" Full Interview. David E. Wellbery, Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago and recipient of the Golden Goethe Medal, introduces us to the life and work of Goethe. The encounter withHeidegger, with whom she had a brief but intense love-affair, had alasting influence on her thought. Arendt did not have much respect for Simone de Beauvoir. I’m not even a liberal. Thinking Without a Banister One of the frames that Young-Bruehl uses is friendship, which is so important to Hannah Arendt and certainly relates to ‘love of the world’. At this time she started working more intensely with the World Zionist Organization and Kurt Blumenfeld, who had enlisted her to collect anti-Semitic research propaganda from the Prussian State Library to be sent to world leaders and to be used at the next World Zionist Conference. I laughed and said, ‘I must protest.’ As a friend says, I’m Arendtian enough to know not to be an Arendtian. Before we get on to the books, first I should ask: who was Hannah Arendt? We must remember that path to totalitarianism as well. It was first published in 1955 and then it went through a few pressings. In one of her letters to Jaspers, she wrote something like, ‘For what he did to Husserl, he’s basically culpable of murder. Absolutely. She did interact with her, and with Sartre and Camus. She wrote numerous articles and 18 books that expressed her views, thoughts and opinions on totalitarianism on judging and thinking. When you get to the last ten pages, she says that loneliness is the underlying cause of all totalitarian movements. Arendt isn’t writing systematic philosophy like Kant, aiming to arrive at a concept of ‘the judgment of the beautiful’, but she’s very interested and engaged with the concept of ‘judgment’ and wants to understand what judgment is in our world today. She never saw herself as a victim. Well, Hannah Arendt wouldn’t call herself a philosopher. It sounds like it’s going to give you the secret, tell you what it’s all about. When I’m introducing Hannah Arendt in a lecture, I often begin by saying that her work is about two questions that are interconnected. The commitment to political community represents an acknowledgement of the equality of one’s fellow citizens and recognition of the superiority of care for the world and communal well-being over private interests. The framework for my biography comes from a panel discussion about her work where she says: “What is the subject of our thought? She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers—Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger—throughout their lives. If you have a couple of months to spare and an interest not only in the Totalitarian regimes in the former Soviet Union and Germany, but also a desire to learn about antisemitism and imperialism then this is the book for you. I’ve seen her on some television interviews—there are very few. That’s what Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975) explores in a letter found in Between Friends: ... One can’t say how life is, how chance or fate deals with people, except by telling the tale. Then, with the help of Varian Fry, they were able to secure exit papers. Yet, as one digs … Culture Why Hannah Arendt remains inspiring today . Without such laws any and all societies risks degenerating into such horror. The book is a deep-dive intellectual history of Hannah Arendt. But if you’re someone who’s not immersed in the world of philosophy what, put simply is this book about? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2016. … One of the frames that Young-Bruehl uses is friendship, which is so important to Hannah Arendt and certainly relates to ‘love of the world’. But one of Arendt’s most prescient points has to do with the burden of bureaucracy as a trigger for social unrest: The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. It’s happened before. In her judgements she did not follow any tradition or political direction. I’m that word people love to use but don’t love in reality—interdisciplinary. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including, Samadhi: Unity of Consciousness and Existence. I think we’re experiencing something analogous right now, this collapse between the private, social and public spheres in our quarantine conditions.
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