![]() ![]() To paraphrase Hannah Arendt, the responsibility of anyone who dares to put pen to paper on a subject is to understand. Her report for the New Yorker remains on trial still, defending against charges of accusing the Jews of their own destruction. Especially after Eichmann was published in the New Yorker, they accused her of being a self-hating Jew who had no regard for the Jews who suffered in Nazi Germany. She, therefore, received extreme remarks from her friends and family for her gallant words. Philosophers and peers since Hannah Arendt have often made the mistake of reading Arendt without referencing her life as a German Jew raised in a progressive family. ![]() Although she refused to be called a philosopher later in her life, Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism (1961) and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1964) are studied as significant works in twentieth-century philosophy. We recognize Hannah Arendt as a formidable seminal philosopher and political theorist of the twentieth century. (Photo courtesy of Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Library, Special Collections & Archives.) Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers. ![]()
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