Who Was Hannah Arendt?

[AGRP]

I like some of her quotes. She wrote a book about totalitarianism. Whats the general opinion of her from the liberty point of view? Ive never heard of her name before.

[BuddyRey]

Never heard of her but she sounds interesting.

[AGRP]

"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda." - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

Just about everything on Youtube is in German or French.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdthMhvkTE

[pcosmar]

Hadn't heard of her, but from the Wiki she had an interesting education and life experience. And some first hand knowledge of her subjects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

Arendt's first major book was The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which traced the roots of Stalinist Communism and Nazism in both anti-Semitism and imperialism. The book was controversial because it suggested, arguably, that an essential identity existed between the two phenomena. She further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in the Holocaust, but merely a convenient proxy. Totalitarianism in Germany, in the end, was about megalomania and consistency, not eradicating Jews.

[AGRP]

Hadn't heard of her, but from the Wiki she had an interesting education and life experience. And some first hand knowledge of her subjects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt


Arendt's first major book was The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which traced the roots of Stalinist Communism and Nazism in both anti-Semitism and imperialism. The book was controversial because it suggested, arguably, that an essential identity existed between the two phenomena. She further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in the Holocaust, but merely a convenient proxy. Totalitarianism in Germany, in the end, was about megalomania and consistency, not eradicating Jews.





I haven't contemplated that thought before.

wow...Maybe thats why she's an underground figure.