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...language of violence is crude and dangerous for those who use it. As Hannah Arendt notes, the Western tradition is full of violence and its legend seems to say, "whatever brotherhood human beings may be capable of has grown out of fratricide"; yet she also points out that neither wars nor revolutions are "ever completely determined by violence. Where violence rules absolutely, everything and everybody must fall silent." Violence is not power. In the last analysis it is an admission of failure, a desire for a magical shortcut, an act of despair. Shameful though conditions in the Negro ghettos...
Quoting Hannah Arendt, he charges that the bureaucrats tend to "dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose." "You tell them that poor people aren't getting any of their housing," he says, and their tell you that you are against housing for the poor." In spite of these difficulties, Moynihan and most of his staff believe that evaluation or urban programs is a useful activity for the Joint Center to undertake. Moynihan claims that the Center now tries to make sure, before signing any contracts, that their clients sincerely desire objective criticism. With these safeguards, Moynihan looks...
...remained for a seemingly minor incident in Jerusalem to illuminate the quality about Eichmann that Historian Hannah Arendt has characterized "the banality of evil." One day after a court session, Eichmann was shown a film: here were Jewish victims packed like cattle into trains; here were Nazi execution squads shooting down rows of naked men, women and children, who fell writhing into trenches that they themselves had dug; here were literally thousands of corpses being bulldozed into mass graves. Suddenly, in the darkened room, Prosecutor Hausner heard Eichmann stir. Hausner wondered if the ice-cold technician of the final solution...
...creed in the West." Economic collectivization is inevitable. But it has begun in America without conscious planning, and the power of economic decision now rests with bureaucratic corporations rather than with the democratic mass most profoundly affected. Slogging his way toward these conclusions, Author Harrington quotes everyone from Hannah Arendt to William Butler Yeats, analyzes the novels of Thomas Mann, the philosophy of Nietzsche, the mysticism of Dostoevsky. Curiously lacking are any references to Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Jaspers, who have already covered much of this embattled ground...
WESTERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Hannah Arendt, author (Eichmann in Jerusalem)-Litt.D...