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(0)Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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Describes Hannah Arendt's life in Germany up to 1933 and her emigration to Paris where she was active in the struggle against fascism and a member of the Ligue Internationale contre l'Antisemitisme, speaking at several conferences. She emigrated to the USA in 1941. Discusses her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951), which contains an important chapter on antisemitism, and "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1961) on the Eichmann trial, which aroused...
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"In 1951, publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism brought Hannah Arendt immediate recognition as a political thinker of the first order, and over the next quarter-century, she published numerous books that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed the central questions and dilemmas of World War II. Yet for many, the significance of Arendt's work has been lost in the controversy surrounding a single phrase, "the banality of evil,"...