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Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is forthcoming from NYRB (in translation by Clara Winston and Richard Winston, and
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Hannah Arendt, who reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, noted him as an unremarkable person, a man who was not very witty or bright. Yet, he, the
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Award-winning author Imraan Coovadia chats to The JRB Editor Jennifer Malec about the mechanisms of good and evil, emailing Wouter Basson, and his
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A book review of Ann Heberlein’s On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt. Translated from Swedish by Alice Menzies (Pushkin
De Joseph Parampathu. Título original: Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State, publicado el 15 de julio 2021. Traducido al
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No other twentieth-century political philosopher dominated Trump-era discourse like Hannah Arendt. In the mainstream and on the fringe, writers
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For the few brief, interminable weeks between the last of our A-Level exams and the end of the school year, we were still required to go into school
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The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture, and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division. The
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On Holy Wednesday, one evening prior to the Last Supper, Jesus dined in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper on the southern slope of the Mount of
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This is the 36th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with James
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Today is International Women’s Day, and I want to take the opportunity to remember the wise words of Hannah Arendt, a woman who is regarded as
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In The Political Religions (1938 [2000]), German-American political theorist Eric Voeglin explores how the modern totalitarian ideologies of
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For real progress, fund the humanities Yoonseo Lee/FileAn hour’s drive from Silicon Valley, UC Berkeley and its educational priorities continue to
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We held our first editorial meeting the morning after the attack on the US Capitol. This is a blog dedicated to exploring twentieth-first century
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A Trump executive order that includes erecting a statue for Hannah Arendt, the political thinker who dedicated her scholarship to understanding the