Word: arendt
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Died. Hannah Arendt, 69, brilliant political philosopher, cultural historian (The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition) and analyst of 20th century malaise; of an apparent heart attack while entertaining friends; in Manhattan. Born in Hannover, Germany, Arendt took her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg, studying under Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933 in the first great wave of Jewish emigration. After working with Zionist organizations in France and the U.S., Arendt broke with the movement and devoted herself to political study. It was her thesis (in Eichmann in Jerusalem) that the century's worst...
...Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt described how the old authority was lost in the modern world; this loss is "tantamount to the loss of the groundwork of the world." Ever since, the world "has begun to shift, to change and transform itself with ever increasing rapidity from one shape into another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place...
...friminal war," and informed his listeners that "a lack of imagination causes cruelty." Largely ignoring a small but spirited group of hecklers. Richardson rambled from the lessons of Vietnam to his undergraduate love for philosophy to the lessons of Watergate, saying little about any of these subjects, as Hannah Arendt reported from the Eichmann trial, even bad guys can be boring...
...Rolls-Royces and Mercedes still whispered their seductions from the sidelines. But, incongruously, in the columns that threaded between these celebrations of richesse were books that would permanently alter their audience: Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, Carson's Silent Spring, Commoner's The Closing Circle, Arendt's Eichmann...
From his shop, Butcher Mike Arendt looked out across Main Street to the aging building that serves as headquarters for the town's striking teachers. Then he lowered his voice and measured his words carefully: "If it's not settled soon, the townspeople are getting ready to take things into their own hands...