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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)

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"S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

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„Pluribus“ und die Einsamkeit der letzten Menschen: Über Gemeinschaft, Überleben und die Illusion von Freiheit

Meine Lieblingsserie der letzten Woche war eindeutig „Pluribus“ auf Apple TV. Wahrscheinlich auch weil das Szenario mich an einer meiner All-Time-Favorites Serien überhaupt erinnert: „Last Man on Earth“. Beide Serien spielen damit, dass ein Virus weite Teile der Menschheit […]

🔎 Heute vor 50 Jahren starb Hannah Arendt, eine der bedeutendsten Philosophinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts.

🎓 Anlässlich ihres Todestages schreibt Matthias Bormuth, Professor für Vergleichende Ideengeschichte an der Universität Oldenburg, in einem Essay über Arendts Gedanken zum unabhängigen Denken als Voraussetzung für Demokratie.

👉🌐 Zum Essay: https://sohub.io/ytf9

📸 Münchner Stadtmuseum / Barbara Niggl Radloff (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

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

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New essay: The Will to Be Ruled — Totalitarianism and the Fantasy of Freedom

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/the-will-to-be-ruled-totalitarianism-and-the-fantasy-of-freedom/

Modern autonomy collapses under its own weight.
When the “self-governed subject” falters, obedience rushes in as comfort.
The essay follows the gradient from freedom to devotion—where submission feels virtuous, even ecstatic.

#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Arendt #Totalitarianism #Ethics #Psychology #Power #DisIntegrationism #PhilosophicsBlog #Politics #Enlightenment #Agency

« #Parias », de #MarinaTouilliez : #Arendt à #Paris, l’amitié comme héroïsme ordinaire
Dans un merveilleux essai, Marina Touilliez décrit la constellation solidaire qui entourait la penseuse en exil, au milieu des années 1930. #HannahArendt #LeMonde #LeMondedeslivres #jeanbirnbaum #mastolivre #bookstodon

https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2024/12/19/parias-de-marina-touilliez-arendt-a-paris-l-amitie-comme-heroisme-ordinaire_6456771_3260.html

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

   The total moral collapse of respectable society during the Hitler regime may teach us that under such circumstances those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight, and that all that then will be left is the mere habit of holding fast to something.
   Much more reliable will be the doubters and skeptics, not because skepticism is good or doubting wholesome, but because they are used to examine things and to make up their own minds.
   Best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

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>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<

John Ganz is always worth reading.

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity

#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism

"In the 2nd half of the 20th century, there was a short time when Western governments and cultures pretended they were against genocide: one in particular, the Holocaust. But before that, they had been for it."

Thank you for the link @RFancio
I even understand that prof. Julia Steinberger asks us to consider perpetrators as normal.
It reminds me of "the banality of evil" from Hannah #Arendt:

Adolf Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. (From her 1963 book.)

Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’.

#genocide #genocides #bookStodon #perpetrators #normal #normalcy #HannahArendt #evil

Here's a list of what I've been working on/thinking about for the last week. https://clerestory.netlify.app/work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20221129

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#Hinweis auf Judith #Shklar: #Kritik an #Elemente und #Ursprünge #totaler #Herrschaft: #Spuren #deutschen #Romantizismus; #Widerholung eines #Ruf nach #Wurzeln, den schon #Romantiker des 19. Jhd ausstießen.

Hannah #Arendt als #apolitische und in #romantischen #Massenekel #gefangene #Theoretikerin.

#Identifikation von #Masse mit #Irrationalität; #Leben in #vernunftloser #Wildheit;

#Welt, 09.05.20, #Literarische #Welt, S. 28, Marko #Martin - #Einspruch mit #Fragezeichen

#Hinweis auf #unvollendete #Auseinandersetzung Hannah #Arendts mit dem #Begriff des #Urteilens durch den #Assistent Jerome #Kohn

#Hinweis auf #Kritik an #Reproduktion #kolonialer #Denkmuster und #Gründungsfigur einer #Erinnerungskultur, die ohne #Relativierung und #Hierarchiesierung #funktioniere

#Funktion von #Erinnerungskultur

#Reflexion der #Möglichkeit der #Trennung von #Politik und #Gesellschaft

#Welt, 09.05.20, #Literarische #Welt, S. 28, Jennifer #Wilton: #Arendt, aber #anders

Hannah #Arendt habe in #VitaActiva den #Prozess #analysiert, der den #Homo #Laborans und mit ihm das #biologisch​e #Leben ins #Zentrum der #politisch​en #Bühne rückt, und damit einhergehend die #Veränderung und den #Niedergang des #öffentlich​en #Raum​es.

Giorgio #Agamben: #Homo #Sacer, Die #souverän​e #Macht und das #nackt​e #Leben, S.13

#Sozialökonomie #Studienarbeit

Hannah #Arendt: #Arbeiten / #Herstellen / #Handeln

#Literarisch zu #entwickeln​der #Begriffszusammenhang, der sich anderen #Begriff​en in einer #Gegenüberstellung zu anderen #ungeklärt​en #Begriffe​n stellt:

#Treffen / #Besprechen / #Veranstalten (#Interaktion)

#Gast - #Dienen
#Kulturtheorie #Selbstauskunft #Kollegin

#Projekt #Sozialökonomie:
Das #Soziale // Die #Ökonomie:
#Tourismus zwischen #Raumtheorie, #Ideenwelt und #Haus #Gott​es (#oikos).