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  1. L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité

    Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…

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  2. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

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  3. Im Februar 2026 wurde die Dissertation von Alice Watanabe zum Thema „Forschen in Fragmenten“ mit dem #dghd-Nachwuchspreis ausgezeichnet. Einen Einblick in ihr Forschung bietet der Beitrag „Theoretische Tauchgänge. Hannah #Arendt und ihr fragmentarisches Denken als Wegweiser für Abduktion und die #Hochschuldidaktik“, der Teil ihrer kumulativen Arbeit ist.
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  4. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    When I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III “to prove a villain.” Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have murdered his superior in order to inherit his post. He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/80707/

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  5. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    For the lesson of such stories is simple and within everybody’s grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that “it could happen” in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 14 (1963)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42505/

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