Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is rightly viewed as the world's most important female philosopher. No other thinker, female or male, had such a personal experience of the age of totalitarianism or analysed it so precisely and objectively. Arendt still attracts worldwide attention with her discoveries of "the rule of Nobody" and "the banality of Evil". In our modern mass societies, she argues, we obey authority far too easily and seldom take responsibility for ourselves. A typical modern man in this respect, she goes on, was the Nazi functionary Eichmann, who organized the transport of millions of human beings into extermination camps simply because it was "part of his job" to do it. Arendt was present at his trial for war crimes and made an amazing discovery. Eichmann was not, as many contended, a "perverted monster". Rather, "The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverse nor sadistic but were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal". It was here that Arendt formulated her brilliant but controversial thesis of "the banality of Evil". Because it was the "banal" mentality of "doing one's daily duty" of Eichmann and many others that made the horrors of Nazism possible. Still today we obey authority far too easily. But each citizen, Arendt argues, should be able, if need be, to think and act against all laws and rules. Should classes in such "civil disobedience" be part of our children's education? Is there an Eichmann in all of us? How much "civic courage" can and must still be demanded even of the modern individual? Hannah Arendt gives clear, trenchant answers to these questions. The book is published as part of the popular series "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes.
Arendt in 60 Minutes : Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Forfatter:
Språk:
engelsk
Format:
It's Dangerous to Believe : Religious Freedom and Its Enemies
Mary Eberstadt
audiobook100 Quotes by Charles Louis de Montesquieu
Montesquieu
audiobookAmerica's Cultural Revolution : How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
Christopher F. Rufo
audiobookFractured : Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again
Jon Yates
audiobookNot so Black and White : A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
Kenan Malik
audiobookThe Canceling of the American Mind : Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
audiobookCreative Evolution
Henri Bergson
audiobookbookBourdieu - Magtens Kartografi
Anders Fogh Jensen
audiobookWhy Grow Up?
Susan Neiman
audiobookThe Origins of Woke : Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Richard Hanania
audiobookThe Power Elite
C. Wright Mills
audiobookThink Faster, Talk Smarter : How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot
Matt Abrahams
audiobookbook
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 4 : Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kafka, Arendt
Walther Ziegler
bookDescartes in 60 Minuten
Walther Ziegler
bookNietzsche in 60 Minutes : Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Walther Ziegler
bookRom - die ewige Stadt regiert die Welt
Walther Ziegler
bookGriechenland - die Wiege Europas
Walther Ziegler
bookGreat Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 5
Walther Ziegler
bookGreat Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 3 : Confucius, Buddha, Epicurus, Descartes, Hobbes
Walther Ziegler
bookEpicurus in 60 Minutes : Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Walther Ziegler
bookDescartes in 60 Minutes : Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Walther Ziegler
bookKafka in 60 Minutes : Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Walther Ziegler
bookGroße Denker in 60 Minuten - Band 4 : Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kafka, Arendt
Walther Ziegler
bookGroße Denker in 60 Minuten - Band 3 : Konfuzius, Buddha, Epikur, Descartes, Hobbes
Walther Ziegler
book