Word: arendt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VIOLENCE by Hannah Arendt. 106 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...Hannah Arendt opens her essay on violence by launching an attack on the think-tank methods of "scientifically minded brain trusters." The trouble, she points out, "is not that they are coldblooded enough to 'think the unthinkable,' but that they do not think...
That is the last thing anyone would say of Hannah Arendt. She thinks and thinks. Moreover, the quality of her thought is rare. Absorbed in the process of philosophical presentation, she drapes herself in scrupulous erudition. As if digging were finding, she sometimes struggles to unearth the obvious with an aphoristic shovel: "Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together...
...literature at Minnesota, Princeton, New York University and Bard. "One year there seemed like ten," he says. "No one knows the demands a progressive school makes on a teacher." Now he is at the University of Chicago, giving courses in Joyce and Melviile and serving, along with Hannah Arendt and Edward Shils, the university's prestigious Committee on Social Thought. "They keep me around as a pet," he explains...