You are all asking the wrong question. The question is: What is the difference between 'behavior' and 'action'? When you can articulate this difference in...
Vera and Bernard Bergen
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Jun 2, 2003 2:53 pm
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... I think I understand what you're getting at here. The uniquely human (although there are some other primates which are getting pretty good at it!) "ability...
Dear Lev. I'm not sure about this afirmation. I have an own scheme for understanding Arendt. Of cours the human condition and the question of human action is a...
I thank Lev for bringing Arendt's Crises of the Republic" to the list here. It is a very worthwhile book for understand the general themes of Arendt, not to...
We know what Arendt means by the term "action" by taking her seriously as an author. The discussion in "The Human Condition," and indeed throughout her body...
... By Arendt's definition, behavior contracts action. What is true and false, according to Arendt, is applicable to human experience, which requires memory,...
Arendt vs. Liberalism Do you ever get the feeling that Arendt really detested the New Left, which today would represent the modern Democratic party in America?...
... seriously as an ... throughout her ... Only if you think she fully and completely elaborated a typology that includes all possible instances. ... around ...
... Yes and no. She detested the bad bits and supported the good bits - especially the claims for participatory democracy. Weird that you consider the...
... She supported the term, but not for the same reasons as the New Left, which invokes its application as a means of cloaking their tyrannical impulses under...
... Left, which ... That's a gross generalization that assumes that all members of the New Left are deceptive by nature. According to this credo - and that's...
Some nice quotes from Arendt... And a relevant story... ".. the extravagent lengths to which the commmitment to non-truthfulness in politics went at the...
... Thanks for providing these quotes. They make a good indictment of Bill Clinton's administration. "The deliberate denial of factual truth - the ability to...
... imagination". ... Seriously, the attempt to take Arendt's discussion of the Pentagon Papers and transfer them to the Iraqi question represents a form of...
... From: Lev Lafayette To: arendt@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:09 AM Subject: [arendt] Re: Arendt vs. Liberalism ... Left, which ... That's a...
How could Arendt support abortion when she placed so much emphasis on natality, on the beginning of something new? How can the destruction of life, nay the...
... You're converting a metaphor into a reality. Be careful. ... coexist with the man's capacity for beginning? ... OK, now you've done the conversion. You've...
... (snip!) ... Already provided. ... people bother ... The death of all people bothers me, whether they're innocent or not. ... nations ... Because Wolfwitz...
Hello everyone, I'm hoping that someone could help me clarify what the main point and the main parts are in the section "The Rise of the Social" from Arendt's...
Hi there, I'm Douglas. I'm taking a 4th year politics class that involves some Arendt and Camus. These two writers are pretty thick in their writings, and I'm ...
Dear Free Lance Academy and Members of the Arendt Yahoo Group, My name is Zak Berkman. I am one of the founding producers of Epic Theatre Center, a non-profit...
The following message was posted yesterdy on Stephen Clark's Philos-L list. If you have an answer and are not subscribed to Philos-L, you can post it here and...
There is a book on Arendt which I just wrote a review on Amazon.com, but I thought someone might see it here first if I post this review: HANNAH ARENDT IN...
"Precisely the capacity to use well-trained wit to provide interesting rationalizations of Nazism made philosophy permanently suspect." "Later she would...
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I was reading a book by Hannah Arendt at the beginning of July, when I went to a Bo Diddley concert in which his song "Shut Up, Woman" ended with "You know I...
HERE'S AN UPDATE ON WHO KNEW WHO: It is certainly interesting to find a professor who has studied Nietzsche more than Hannah Arendt did and is able to...
The following message, originally posted on philos-L, may be of interest to members of the arendt group. Lance Fletcher ... Subject: work, labour, action ...
Everyone, A blessed day! I'm in dire need of your help, could you suggest any information, books, publications, comments and suggestions or any academic...
Subject: RE: [arendt] I need help on my thesis Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:49 AM The biggest thing I have is CORRESPONDENCE 1926 - 1969 HANNAH ARENDT ...
The following texts could be of help with Arendt's notion of freedom: - The chapter "The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo seclorum" which is the last ...