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Besuch in Deutschland

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Erstmals seit ihrer Flucht nach Frankreich und der sich anschließenden Emigration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika reiste Hannah Arendt vom August 1949 bis März 1950 wieder nach Deutschland. Anlass ihres Besuches in der gerade gegründeten Bundesrepublik waren Arbeiten für die Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, als deren Direktorin die in Hannover geborene und in Königsberg aufgewachsene Philosophin bis 1952 tätig gewesen ist. Die Eindrücke, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse, die Hannah Arendt auf ihrer Reise durch ein nicht nur äußerlich zerstörtes Land sammelte, hat sie in einem Bericht niedergelegt, den die Zeitschrift Commentary im Herbst 1950 veröffentlichte. Arendts Essay gehört zum Klügsten, Bewegendsten und Weitsichtigsten, was über die sogenannte Stunde Null geschrieben wurde. Es ist der Versuch einer äußerst empfindsamen und hellsichtigen Frau, die das Manuskript ihres Hauptwerkes »Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft« geraden abgeschlossen hatte, persönliche Verbitterung und Trauer durch die intellektuelle Anstrengung zu überwinden, dem im Aufbau befindlichen neuen Gemeinwesen einen Spiegel vorzuhalten.

94 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1993

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Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

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February 26, 2024
Ein niederschmetternder Bericht über das Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit!

Eine starke Erinnerung, dass wir sowohl für die Vergangenheit als auch und vor allem für die Gegenwart politische Verantwortung tragen.
Einer Verantwortung, welcher wir nur durch die Schulung politischer Urteilskraft gerecht werden.

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January 3, 2024
Leggere Arendt è sempre piacevole ma, soprattutto, stimolante. E per questo do 4 stelle. Tuttavia molte delle sue opinioni in questo breve ma interessante scritto, le ho trovate datate e ormai superate. Erano legittime e altrettanto plausibili le sue analisi quando lei tornò in questo paese devastato da anni di totalitarismo, ma ho trovato le sue parole esageratamente pessimistiche nei confronti della capacità della Germania e del popolo tedesco di rinascere dalla guerra e di essere, perfino, un baluardo di una Europa «federata». Lettura comunque interessante e proficua, specie nell’analisi dell’incapacità (razionale o, a mio modo di vedere, meno) del popolo tedesco, di accettare le proprie responsabilità senza sentirsi oppresso o vittima sacrificale.
Si può condividere ciò che l’autrice dice oppure contestarlo, ma è stata, senza dubbio, una delle grandi intellettuali del secondo Novecento, alla quale ancora oggi, in ogni caso, è doveroso fare riferimento.
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September 9, 2017
Un'ottima analisi dello stato d'animo dei tedeschi subito dopo la caduta del nazismo e la fine della guerra. Ho trovato qualche concetto un po' ostico, ma nel complesso una concisa analisi. Interessante.
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