Frasi di Hannah Arendt
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40 riflessioni profonde sulla condizione umana

Esplora le profonde riflessioni di Hannah Arendt, celebre filosofa, sui pericoli del pensiero, sulla natura del male, sull'impatto del totalitarismo, sul potere del perdono e sulla complessità della colpa. Approfondite la condizione umana con la sua saggezza illuminante.

Hannah Arendt è stata una politologa, filosofa e storica tedesca naturalizzata statunitense nel 1937. Nata di origine ebraica, fuggì dalla Germania nazista nel 1933 a causa delle persecuzioni e rimase apolide fino al 1951 quando ottenne la cittadinanza statunitense. Durante la sua carriera, ha lavorato come giornalista, docente universitaria e ha scritto importanti opere di filosofia politica. Tuttavia, è importante notare che Arendt preferiva essere considerata una teorica politica piuttosto che una filosofa, rifiutando sempre di essere inserita in questa categoria specifica.

✵ 14. Ottobre 1906 – 4. Dicembre 1975  •  Altri nomi Hannah Arendtová
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“Io non credo che possa esistere qualche processo di pensiero senza esperienze personali.”

Hannah Arendt

Origine: Da La lingua materna, a cura di Alessandro Dal Lago, Mimesis, Milano, 1996.

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Hannah Arendt: Frasi in inglese

“The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.”

Hannah Arendt libro On Violence

"On Violence".
Crises of the Republic (1969)

“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”

Hannah Arendt

Origine: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”

Hannah Arendt libro On Revolution

On Revolution (1963), ch. 2.
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Contesto: What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.”

Hannah Arendt

&quot; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary http://books.google.com/books?id=iMIPAQAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;Revolutionaries+do+not+make+revolutions+The+revolutionaries+are+those+who+know+when+power+is+lying+in+the+street+and+when+they+can+pick+it+up+Armed&amp;quot;&quot;. <br class="br">Crises of the Republic (1969)

“Eichmann, much less intelligent and without any education to speak of, at least dimly realized that it was not an order but a law which had turned them all into criminals. The distinction between an order and the Führer's word was that the latter's validity was not limited in time and space, which is the outstanding characteristic of the former. This is also the true reason why the Führer's order for the Final Solution was followed by a huge shower of regulations and directives, all drafted by expert lawyers and legal advisors, not by mere administrators; this order, in contrast to ordinary orders, was treated as a law. Needless to add, the resulting legal paraphernalia, far from being a mere symptom of German pedantry and thoroughness, served most effectively to give the whole business its outward appearance of legality.And just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it — the quality of temptation.”

Hannah Arendt libro Eichmann in Jerusalem

Origine: Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Ch. VIII.

“The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.”

Hannah Arendt libro The Life of the Mind

Origine: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), pp. 31-32.

“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.”

Hannah Arendt libro Men in Dark Times

Men in Dark Times (1968).

“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”

Hannah Arendt libro Le origini del totalitarismo

Part 3, Ch. 2 The Totalitarian Movement, page 80 https://books.google.de/books?id=I0pVKCVM4TQC&amp;pg=PT104&amp;dq=A+mixture+of+gullibility+and+cynicism+had+been+an+outstanding+characteristic+of+mob+mentality+before+it+became+an+everyday+phenomenon+of+masses.&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=A%20mixture%20of%20gullibility%20and%20cynicism%20had%20been%20an%20outstanding%20characteristic%20of%20mob%20mentality%20before%20it%20became%20an%20everyday%20phenomenon%20of%20masses.&amp;f=false <br class="br">The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) <br class="br">Contesto: A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

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