Bøker av Hannah Arendt

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' Guardian

Considering humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable, this text addresses diminishing human agency and political freedom - the paradox that as human powers increase through technology and inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions.

Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition of Eichmann in Jerusalem contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.

From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America exploding into student protest, Hannah Arendt's seminal work dissects violence in the twentieth century: its nature and causes, its relationship with politics and war, its role in the modern age. Arendt warns against the glamorization of violence by revolutionary causes, and argues that true, lasting power can never grow 'out of the barrel of a gun'.'Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times' The NationWith an introduction by Arendt expert, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham.

The essence of the correspondence between Arendt and Scholem can be said to lie in three things. Above all it provides an intimate account of how two great intellectuals try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, and how to think about Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust. They also debate the issue of what it means to be Jewish in the post-Holocaust world whether in New York or in Jerusalem. Finally, the specter of Benjamin haunts the work and in a sense the letters are as much about Benjamin as the other two questions since his life and tragic death epitomize them both. Arendt and Scholem's letters on these weighty questions are lightened by more routine exchanges: on travel itineraries, lunch or dinner parties where important people were present, and so forth. These daily details are woven throughout the correspondence and provide vivid biographical information about Arendt and Scholem that is unavailable in any other source.

Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about German Jewish history. After moving to France in 1933, she helped Jewish youth immigrate to Palestine. During her years in Paris, her principle concern was the transformation of antinomianism from prejudice to policy, which would culminate in the Nazi "final solution." After France fell, Arendt escaped from an internment camp and made her way to America. There she wrote articles calling for a Jewish army to fight the Nazis. After the war, she supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in a binational (Arab-Jewish) state of Israel.Arendt's original conception of political freedom cannot be fully grasped apart from her experience as a Jew. In 1961 she attended Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Her report, Eichmann in Jerusalem, provoked an immense controversy, which culminated in her virtual excommunication from the worldwide Jewish community. Today that controversy is the subject of serious re-evaluation, especially among younger people in the United States, Europe, and Israel.The publication of The Jewish Writings-much of which has never appeared before-traces Arendt's life and thought as a Jew. It will put an end to any doubts about the centrality, from beginning to end, of Arendt's Jewish experience.

Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was 'only following orders'.

Venez découvrir la pensée d'Hannah Arendt grâce à une analyse philosophique de référence ! Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette étude est recommandée par de nombreux enseignants. Cet ouvrage contient notamment la biographie du philosophe, le résumé détaillé de sa pensée, ainsi que l'analyse de son courant philosophique. Retrouvez tous nos titres sur : www.fichedelecture.fr.

More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich"No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fifty years ago, the century's greatest political theorist turned her focus to these essential questions in two seminal essays, brought together here for the first time. Her conclusions, delivered in searching prose that crackles with insight and intelligence, remain powerfully relevant, perhaps more so today than when they were written. In "Truth and Politics," Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed citizenry. She shows how our shared sense of reality-the texture of facts in which we wrap our daily lives-can be torn apart by organized lying, replaced with a fantasy world of airbrushed evidence and doctored documents. In "Lying in Politics," written in response to the release of the Pentagon Papers, Arendt applies these insights to an analysis of American policy in Southeast Asia, arguing that the real goal of the Vietnam War-and of the official lies used to justify it by successive administrations-was nothing other than the burnishing of America's image. In his introduction, David Bromwich (American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us) engages with Arendt's essays in the context of her other writings and underscores their clarion call to take seriously the ever-present threat to democracy posed by lying.

Adolf Eichmann, som administrerte Nazi-Tysklands deportering av jøder til utryddelsesleirene, sto i 1961 tiltalt for forbrytelser mot det jødiske folk og mot menneskeheten. Den amerikansk-jødiske forfatteren og filosofen Hannah Arendt var til stede i Jerusalem som reporter for The New Yorker. Hun drøfter Eichmanns skyld, og han skildres som en ny forbrytertype, som er unnskyldt med at under spesielle omstendigheter er det umulig å vite om han handler rett. I følge forfatteren kan virkelighetsflukt og mangel på personlig ansvar få uante konsekvenser. Med litteraturliste og register.

Hannah Arendt er en av det forrige århundrets mest betydningsfulle tenkere. I Mennesket i dystre tider løfter Arendt frem sentrale skikkelser som har utmerket seg innen ulike fagfelt: filosofi, psykologi, politikk, teologi, skrivekunst og statsvitenskap, med mer. Gjennom elleve biografiske essays skriver hun om hvordan disse personene har levd og virket i samtiden. Ordlyden «dystre tider» viser til Bertolt Brechts dikt Til ettertiden: «Jeg lever virkelig i dystre tider. Et uskyldig ord er dårskap.» De biograferte har, ifølge Arendt, på hver sin måte motvirket dette mørket og lyst opp samtiden sin. I Mennesket i dystre tider skriver Arendt om følgende personer: Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781) Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, pave Johannes XXIII (1881-1963) Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen (1885-1962) Hermann Broch (1886-1951) Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Waldemar Gurian (1902-1954) Randall Jarrell (1914-1965

Vita activa er Hannah Arendts hovedverk. Her gir hun en historisk analyse av forholdet mellom det virksomme livets tre komponenter: arbeid, produksjon og handling. Hannah Arendts analyse av det virksomme livet er preget av antikkens begreper, men disse er satt inn i en ramme der også filosofiske posisjoner - fra Immanuel Kant, via Karl Marx og frem til Martin Heidegger - er innreflektert. Dette gjør at Arendts analyse har en samfunnskritisk brodd, rettet mot den moderne tids manglende rom for handling og individualitet - og derfor til syvende og sist for frihet.

Rune Slagstad har satt sammen utvalget av artikler i Politikk i dystre tider, og han har valgt sentrale tekster som belyser Hannah Arendts filsofi og politiske tenkning. Arendt var en kompromissløs filosof, skribent og debattør. Hennes mest kjente arbeider handler om å forstå opprinnelsen til totalitarisme. Arendt hadde selv jødisk bakgrunn, og mange av hennes arbeider berører jødiske spørsmål, blant annet hennes omstridte bok Eichmann i Jerusalem. Noe av det farligste, mente hun, var når mennesker i sin iver etter å være til nytte, handler med automatikk. Hennes tenkning er en hyllest til refleksjonen og den sunne fornuft som setter mennesket i stand til å tre et skritt tilbake fra verdens vrimmel og selv velge hva det vil. Åpningskapittelet «Vi flyktninger» ble opprinnelig skrevet tidlig under andre verdenskrig, men har slående aktualitet i dagens situasjon. Et annet av bokens kapitler, «Sannhet og politikk», er som om det skulle være skrevet som en filosofisk kommentar til dagens debatt om «fakenews». I tillegg bringer boken inngående kapitler om politiske nøkkeltema som frihet, autoritet og revolusjon, utformet i en essayistisk tilgjengelig form. Boken avrundes med to portretter: det ene, om den marxistiske forfatteren Bertolt Brecht, med kritisk distanse, det andre, om den frihetlige sosialisten Rosa Luxemburg, med varm sympati. HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) var en av forrige århundres mest betydningsfulle politiske tenkere. Hun studerte filosofi, gresk og teologi. I 1933 måtte hun flykte og endte opp i Paris. I 1940 emigrerte hun til USA. Hun underviste ved en rekke amerikanske universiteter, og i 1959 ble hun den første kvinne utnevnt til et fullt professorat ved Princeton-universitetet.

I den gamle rekken av Cappelens upopulære skrifter (som utkom mellom 1948 og 1972) ble Hannah Arendts essay On Violence utgitt i 1971 med tittelen Vold i vår tid. Dette essayet er oversatt på nytt og har nå fått tittelen Om vold. I tillegg inneholder utgivelsen to korte essay av Arendt med samme tematikk: Om terror fra 1953 og Er Amerika et voldelig samfunn? fra 1968.Det første og det siste essayet er skrevet med den amerikanske borgerrettsbevegelsen, Vietnamkrigen og studentopprøret som bakgrunn. Om terror er skrevet med Hitler og Stalins terrorregimer som bakgrunn.Boka er oversatt av Lene Auestad og med forord av Helgard Mahrdt.Hannah Arendt var en tysk-jødisk politisk tenker som flyktet fra Nazi-Tyskland til USA. Hennes generasjons politiske erfaring var preget av krig og revolusjon. Hun ville derfor utvikle en ny forståelse av politikk som ikke var bygget på vold, men på makt. Mens makt oppstår når mennesker handler sammen, kan vold brukes av enkeltindivider for å nå sine mål. Vold kan være rasjonelt, men aldri være legitimt. Volden kan tilintetgjøre makten, og i verste fall er det som står igjen et terrorvelde som tar sikte på å ødelegge alle mellommenneskelige relasjoner, både i den offentlige og i den private sfæren.

A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century''s most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt.Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt’s first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, passionate woman, and an important figure in German romanticism. Rahel Varnhagen also bore the burdens of being an unusual woman in a man’s world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.She was, Arendt writes, “neither beautiful nor attractive . . . and possessed no talents with which to employ her extraordinary intelligence and passionate originality.” Arendt sets out to tell the story of Rahel’s life as Rahel might have told it and, in doing so, to reveal the way in which assimilation defined one person’s destiny. On her deathbed Rahel is reported to have said, “The thing which all my life seemed to me the greatest shame, which was the misery and misfortune of my life—having been born a Jewess—this I should on no account now wish to have missed.” Only because she had remained both a Jew and a pariah, Arendt observes, “did she find a place in the history of European humanity.”

This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural questions.

This is a revised and corrected English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts and other documents. It demonstrates how her early work on Augustine provides the key to her later critique of modernity.

Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled 'The Life of the Mind'. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, 'Thinking' and 'Willing'. Of the third, 'Judging', only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the title suggests, Arendt conceived of her work roughly parallel to the three 'Critiques' of Immanuel Kant. In fact, while she began work on 'The Life of the Mind', Arendt lectured an 'Kant's Political Philosophy', using the 'Critique of Judgment' as her main text. The present volume brings Arendt's notes for these lectures together with other of her texts on the topic of judging and provides important clues to the likely direction of Arendt's thinking in this area.

Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.

Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century. This title includes selections from her major works, including "The Origins of Totalitarianism", "Between Past and Future", "Men in Dark Times", "The Jew as Pariah", and "The Human Condition", as well as shorter writings and letters.