Hannah Arendt

“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide” -Hannah Arendt. This quotation expresses the way lying is a coverup for a bigger problem that someone wishes to hide. Lying is done on purpose in order to deceive someone just like in the novel The Girl on the Train. In this novel, characters such as the protagonist, Rachel, an alcoholic and Tom, Rachel’s ex husband both play a role in…

Normally I would avoid cliché terms and avoid referencing overly used pop culture references, but this one is very appropriate given the topic. “War” originally written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong was one of the first politically charged Motown songs wrote in protest of the Vietnam War. First sang by the Temptations this song became the first of many Motown songs to declare political protests on the world climate, but for my generation many recognize the song as being soulfully…

and justice into principle and justice” (Pitkin 346). This connection can spark real political action among citizens, regardless of other defining features. “The social,” a concept created by Hannah Arendt, can be used to create just citizen activity and unite citizens rather than create the passive action Arendt fears (qtd. in Pitkin 333). This citizen activity must be aimed at Pitkin’s idea of justice. As Olson points out, “citizenship as standing” has a negative impact on democracy. He…

appear unlikely at best. Thus, violence had become a subject that most modern writers who wished to convey the historical, psychological, and artistic landscape of the modern world could not fail to confront. In her influential study On Violence, Hannah Arendt explored the balance between institutional power structures and violence, an equilibrium that was greatly upset as violent means were adopted to cleanse and reorder the world through fascism, collectivism, and imperialism in the twentieth…

Lessons of the Holocaust both summarizes and extends Marrus’ profession as a holocaust historian – one that he labels as “a never ending quest to get to the bottom of things” (Marrus, 2016, p. 174). In the book Lessons of the Holocaust, Michael R. Marrus discusses how the Holocaust, like all important events in history, must be learned, debated and interpreted for new generations. He argues, that there are no set lessons to be learned from the Holocaust since its meaning is not fixed. Marrus…

The United States takes pride on the ideology of supporting freedom, even naming itself “the land of the free” despite the many issues “minorities” have faced throughout its entire history. Nevertheless, many Americans believed that the United States has shown progress and has become more open, providing more opportunities for people of color, women, the LGBT community and so forth. However, with the election of Donald Trump as president, many of the Ideologies of America's past has unveiled…

autobiographical essay using five course concepts. Before I begin to go into much more detail, I believe it is important to start off with some simple definitions of work, family, and gender as it reflects on the courses name. Work is defined by Hannah Arendt as “the construction of a stable world of things, which become the basis for action” (138). Family is referred to by Friedrich Engels as the connection of multiple individuals which make up a whole (734). Finally, gender is defined as being…

In this case evil was accepted as the norm, and one of the most famous examples is the writings of Hannah Arendt on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi colonel and primary organizer of the Holocaust. Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” when writing about Eichmann because, to her, he seemed to be a normal man who was just following orders and showed no fanaticism towards Nazism or the Jews, just…

Jake, on the other hand, is suffering from a “sexual” wound. Because of this, his heart is not in the relationship. Another thing that the Sun Also Rises is focused on is the anti-Jew atmosphere that has been spreading, especially in Europe. Hannah Arendt summed it up nicely by saying, “ Annihilation of the Jews and of traditional life went hand in hand …...........”(Wand 63). This novel does have one good thing and it comes in the form of Robert Cohn. Robert Cohn is an American Jew who lives…

crimes against humanity, he constantly justified that he was acting upon that which was ordered upon him as well as going with the tide of the powers that be. This remorseless defense was famously chronicled and evaluated upon by the German Jew, Hannah Arendt, who had released a book about it, “A Report on the Banality of Evil”, in 1963. This confronted the audacity of perpetrators of heinous crimes, like Eichmann and his role in the Holocaust, to defend or justify at their actions in the face…