Ханна Арендт цитаты
Ханна Арендт
Дата рождения: 14. Октябрь 1906
Дата смерти: 4. Декабрь 2004
Другие имена: Hannah Arendtová
Ха́нна А́рендт — немецко-американский философ еврейского происхождения, политический теоретик и историк, основоположница теории тоталитаризма.
Подобные авторы
Айн Рэнд16
американская писательница и философ
Бертольд Ауэрбах15
немецкий писатель
Мартин Бубер2
еврейский философ
Бенедикт Спиноза56
нидерландский философ-рационалист и натуралист
Дайдодзи Юдзан2
японский самурай, историк, философ, моралист, теоретик воен…
Лион Фейхтвангер26
немецкий писатель еврейского происхождения
Курт Тухольский13
немецкий журналист и писатель еврейского происхождения
Вальтер Беньямин9
немецкий философ, теоретик истории, эстетик, историк фотогр…
Артур Рубинштейн3
польский и американский пианист и музыкально-общественный д…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, книга The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), 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 concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life.“
— Hannah Arendt, книга The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Context: The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Part 3, Ch. 12, § 3.
„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, книга The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".
„For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.“
— Hannah Arendt, книга Eichmann in Jerusalem
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Ch. XIV.
