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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York.

She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).
years of life: 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975
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Yerem Mújicahas quoted2 years ago
the sciences today have been forced to adopt a “language” of mathematical symbols which, though it was originally meant only as an abbreviation for spoken statements, now contains statements that in no way can be translated back into speech. The reason why it may be wise to distrust the political judgment of scientists qua scientists is not primarily their lack of “character”—that they did not refuse to develop atomic weapons—or their naïveté—that they did not understand that once these weapons were developed they would be the last to be consulted about their use—but precisely the fact that they move in a world where speech has lost its power.
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    Yerem Mújicahas quoted2 years ago
    politically, the modern world, in which we live today, was born with the first atomic explosions.
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      Jailin Camposhas quotedlast year
      the new mass leaders whose careers reproduce the features of earlier mob leaders: failure in professional and social life, perversion and disaster in private life. The fact that their lives prior to their political careers had been failures, naively held against them by the more respectable leaders of the old parties, was the strongest factor in their mass appeal. It seemed to prove that individually they embodied the mass destiny of the time and that their desire to sacrifice everything for the movement, their assurance of devotion to those who had been struck by catastrophe, their determination never to be tempted back into the security of normal life, and their contempt for respectability were quite sincere and not just inspired by passing ambitions.
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        Jailin Camposshared an impression10 months ago
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        Y finalmente Arendt cierra la trilogía explicando qué es el totalitarismo.

        Para ella, el totalitarismo como sistema se basa en la ideología del terror, y para ello, construye un Estado Policial sin leyes, en donde el líder decide absolutamente todo lo que acontece en la Nación.

        Lo más interesante del libro, para mí, es su disertación acerca de por qué el pueblo se mantiene dentro del Estado Totalitario, incluso apoyando las decisiones del líder aunque sean suicidas, como en el caso de Alemania durante y sobre todo al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

        Arendt menciona un montón de cosas pero resalto que con la ausencia de leyes, como individuo no puedes esperar justicia, lo que hace que como ciudadano no tengas idea de qué debes hacer para evitar la cárcel, la deportación o la muerte. Es un estado en el que el individuo es al mismo tiempo verdugo y víctima. Para tratar de salvarme hoy participo y me convierto en verdugo, aunque sé que mañana me voy a convertir en una víctima más.

        El sistema te masifica pero al mismo tiempo te atomiza. Vives en una sociedad en donde no puedes confiar en el otro, estás rodeado de personas pero completamente solo, quitándote tu esencia como ser humano y haciéndote presa fácil de la ideología y perdiendo el sentido común y con él, el pensamiento lógico.

        Lo más escalofriante del libro es que, como está el mundo en este momento, queda claro que muy pronto vamos a estar allí de nuevo.

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          Jailin Camposshared an impressionlast year
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          Para mí siempre ha sido una interrogante el por qué de la existencia del antisemitismo, por qué los judíos. Ya leí varios libros de historia que tocan entre otros temas, el antisemitismo como una cuestión social común en Europa y en Estados Unidos a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Pero por qué, por qué los judíos...

          Antisemitism de Hannah Arendt, es el primer libro que leo en donde se intenta explicar, partiendo de una profusa bibliografía, los factores externos (la sociedad europea desde el siglo XVIII) e internos (El pueblo judío y su visión del mundo y su papel en él), que propiciaron el nacimiento del antisemitismo como un movimiento político relevante, al punto de desencadenar el holocausto.

          Este libro es la primera parte de un libro más grande y muy conocido de Arendt "Los orígenes del totalitarismo", voy a empezar ahora el segundo libro que explica entonces el imperialismo como otra base importante para surgimiento de regímenes totalitarios. Mientras tanto, les RECOMIENDO MUCHO este, es muy esclarecedor.

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