Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of “the banality of evil” which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an émigré.

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century's boldest and most original thinkers. As well as Arendt's last interview with French journalist Roger Errera, the volume features an important interview from the early 60s with German journalist Gunter Gaus, in which the two discuss Arendt's childhood and her
escape from Europe, and a conversation with acclaimed historian of the Nazi period, Joachim Fest, as well as other exchanges.
These interviews show Arendt in vigorous intellectual form, taking up the issues of her day with…
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  • Анастасия Карповскаяhas quoted3 years ago
    The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
  • Анастасия Карповскаяhas quoted3 years ago
    I consider dangerous nonsense—as, for example, politicizing and “refunctioning” (what the Germans call umfunktionieren) the universities, that is, perverting their function, and other things of that sort.
  • Анастасия Карповскаяhas quoted3 years ago
    this is the so-called internal emigration among the murderers—which means the extinction of the whole concept of inner emigration or inner resistance.

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