Ханна Арендт цитаты
Ханна Арендт
Дата рождения: 14. Октябрь 1906
Дата смерти: 4. Декабрь 1975
Другие имена:Hannah Arendtová
Ха́нна А́рендт — немецко-американский философ еврейского происхождения, политический теоретик и историк, основоположница теории тоталитаризма.
Подобные авторы
Рихард Кох
немецкий и советский врач и историк медицины
Эрик Фёгелин
немецкий социолог
Феликс Мендельсон
немецкий композитор, пианист, дирижёр, педагог
Айн Рэнд13
американская писательница и философ
Бертольд Ауэрбах18
немецкий писатель
Цитаты Ханна Арендт
„The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.“
— Hannah Arendt
Context: The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. Yet to turn our backs on the destructive forces of the century is of little avail.
The trouble is that our period has so strangely intertwined the good with the bad that without the imperialists' "expansion for expansion's sake," the world might never have become one; without the bourgeoisie's political device of "power for power's sake," the extent of human strength might never have been discovered; without the fictitious world of totalitarian movements, in which with unparalleled clarity the essential uncertainties of our time have been spelled out, we might have been driven to our doom without ever becoming aware of what has been happening.
And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.
Preface to the first edition, written in the summer of 1950.
„The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.“
— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".
