...“mature youths” could read Kant for Kids directly, but younger people might need a mediator to respond to puzzling bits with salient, clarifying examples from contemporary life. The book sparked...
...this century. Among the items brought to light by scholars since Blumenberg’s death are a commentary on Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem – Blumenberg’s response is caustic (“[She’s] completely insensitive...
...consciousness. Indeed, one could read Miller’s argument as commensurate with Hannah Arendt’s worry that the rise of “the social,” governed by an ethical rationality in which the ends of ethical...
...dangerous thoughts; Thinking itself is dangerous.” “It is the inability to imagine what others are feeling… That is what I called ‘banality.’” Hannah Arendt “To point to structures; they say...
...of those authors to the present. At the same time, Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism attracted many readers who wanted to know the parallels between the rise of Nazi...
...class, reporting that he has read the book on the gay playwright and novelist Jean Genet that Sara recommended; they both concur that the text’s illumination of social exclusion is...
...insights on what philosophers have left “unthought”; Hannah Arendt on the dangers of the failure to think; Louis Althusser on the ideological state apparatus and its relation to the repressive...
...good thing, because we don’t want cookie cutter stories. Everybody wants to read different things; everybody wants to write different things. I will be saying many things which contradict what...
...Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (Rowman & Littlefield 2017). I spoke with Minnich about what it was like to be Hannah Arendt’s Teaching Assistant, whether Arendt’s...
...to be rejected. Hannah Arendt even famously claimed that Jesus “discovered” forgiveness. The second reason is that, to the extent that philosophy in the Anglo-American world was at the time...
