arendt

Just a tiny nitpick - Arendt was a woman - Hannah Arendt to be more precise.

It's nice to see discussion in mainstream media applying Arendt to the policies and practices of the United States.

It is fair to say that there were people such as Arendt painted Eichmann to be.

The coldness and lack of emotion present is not unlike how Arendt was describing Eichmann.

Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil; I think one could write just as convincingly about the banality of greed.

(at this time you're encouraged to dig in deep to the hannah arendt reference.) especially in the digital world.

Instead, read Gramsci, Camus, Marcuse, and Arendt for the philosophy.

Given that the death camps didn't start in earnest until the very end of 1941 I would hope Hannah Arendt hadn't heard of it until then.

For instance, (and it's been a while, so perhaps my reading is bad), Arendt makes a distinction between the justified use of violence, in which we suppose that violence is wrong but can see no other course of action, and legitimate violence, where we understand violence simply as our right as people with power.

Hanna Arendt wrote compellingly about how the most "evil" man in the camps was in fact a banal bureucrat.

This is the key takeaway from the Milgram experiment, and the key point of Hannah Arendt's concept of "the banality of evil".

Hannah Arendt is widely praised and its Jerusalem book is often quoted all around the world, yet this portrayal of a "mailman" is more than dubious.

I suggest reading and considering Hannah Arendt's famous work, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" for a different perspective on this.

It does contradict Arendt's thesis, and does so with comprehensive grounding in source material that had been unexamined.

Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the political domain of the classic city would agree with the equation of walls with law and order.

Well, I did link to a review of another long and well-researched book that picks apart Arendt's portrayal.