Arendt

[Fiona Shnapple]

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> She is a wonderful read. Do people still read her? I mean, read her books?
> Put her next to all this postmodern rhizome and she looks like clarity
> itself. In hc or tot she talks about man and the moon, his disdain for
> nature and Earth. The Deathkingdom. It's priceless.
>
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> On Monday, December 2, 2013, rich wrote:
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>> this may have been posted already but two part article on two films: the
>> Arendt film already discussed and Claude Lanzmann's new documentary about
>> Benjamin Murmelstein, head of the Judenrat at Theresienstadt. worth reading
>>
>> rich
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>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/arendt-eichmann-new-truth/
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>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/defense-jewish-collaborator/
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>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I Don't think Arendt herself was interested in halos.  And some of her
>>> opinions seem pretty strained to me, but i think she was consistent and
>>> willing to face any truth. She was accused of nasty stuff when she wrote
>>> about Eichmann and Jewish leaders who collaborated with nazis. No one
>>> discredited her information, only her willingness to disclose these things
>>> about people who were fundamentally victims. I was concerned that this
>>> post-war story was an accusation made at that time to smear her rather than
>>> based on real evidence.  What I have reda held no such information and said
>>> their affair ended when he publicly sided with the Nazis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>> > Even Ms. Levy-Bruhl, with, evidently, an authorative book now in its
>>> > second edition
>>> > explores reasons for Hannah renewing her 'friendship' with Martin in
>>> > the 50's.
>>> >
>>> > Hannah believed in 'continuity' she herself said and is why, she said.
>>> > Ok, then.
>>> >
>>> > None of this takes anything away from her actions and (some of) her
>>> > thinking, imho.
>>> >
>>> > You want to grant her secular sainthood, joseph, go right ahead.
>>> > And I still think TRP read The Origins of Totalitarianism....
>>> >
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