"I proceed from facts and events instead of intellectual affinities and influences." This is not a lesson the center that purports to teach Arendt's principles seems to have fully understood. You latest here: hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the… is a travesty of her incandescent thinking. 1/
Oliver Kamm wrote once: ""Historical analogies are never exact but sometimes useful. If they are to be useful, then the precedent needs at a minimum to be stated accurately" . Do you object to this instruction? 2/
Arendt explained the totality of absolute rightlessness that the concentration camps were for Jews in her article "Total Domination" in which she clarified that nothing came even close to that expulsion from all that is human. 3/
The thesis you promote makes a mockery of the total benightedness of the Holocaust. The picture that you posted on your analogy makes it clear how obscene that analogy was:
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Hannah Arendt was revolted by the intellectual phenomenon of coordination with fashionable pieties:
"And among intellectuals Gleichschaltung was the rule, so
to speak. .. I left Germany dominated by the idea.. 5/
"And among intellectuals Gleichschaltung was the rule, so
to speak. .. I left Germany dominated by the idea.. 5/
Never again! I shall never again get involved in any kind of intellectual business. I want nothing to do with that lot. [-] it belongs to the essence of being an intellectual that one fabricates ideas [-] that means that they made up ideas .. in part terrifically interesting 6/
things! Completely fantastic and interesting
and complicated things! [-] I would say that they were trapped by their own ideas."
Now Arendt's name is used in what is today's equivalent to Gleichschaltung. Just bloody unbelievable! 6/6
and complicated things! [-] I would say that they were trapped by their own ideas."
Now Arendt's name is used in what is today's equivalent to Gleichschaltung. Just bloody unbelievable! 6/6
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