Arendt

[Tom Beshear]

Two years ago I took a graduate class built around The Origins of Totalitarianism, and I read The Human Condition for another course in the same program.


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  From: Fiona Shnapple 
  To: pynchon -l 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 6:31 AM
  Subject: Re: Arendt


  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. 

  On Monday, December 2, 2013, rich wrote:

    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 

    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/arendt-eichmann-new-truth/

    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/defense-jewish-collaborator/




    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:

      > 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.
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      > Hannah believed in 'continuity' she herself said and is why, she said.
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      > None of this takes anything away from her actions and (some of) her thinking, imho.
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      > 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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