Tra passato e futuro

[Preface:] Arendt introduces her rationale for the title using a parable from Kafka, a brilliant thought-problem in which "he" has two antagonists; one, the origin, pushes from behind and the other blocks the road ahead. [1. Tradition and the Modern Age:] Arendt reviews in triptych form three 19th C Leggi tutto

I am simply impressed by Arendt. I don't her so much to be critical as to simply get immersed in her thinking and this book is almost written a little for that purpose. It is not at all a book where she revels in her own brilliance but it is a book where she is testing her thinking which is suppose

pretty great read, i must say. it's mostly stuff that has been covered elsewhere in her work, but this one covers different facets of her theory in 30- to 50-page-long essays, so i'd agree that it's probably her most approachable book. as with most of her work, a lot of this book takes the form of a Leggi tutto

lu en français mais je préfère cette couverture 😘

I forgot I finished this book. It was great. I love Hannah Arendt (if I were alive in her time, I would definitely ask her out on a date, but that's beside the point, she clearly was a genius) and this is a rather approachable book given the topics and her complexity of thought. I especially liked her Leggi tutto

"فإن النظر من أجل الرؤية فقط هو أكثر الأعمال حرية." يقول كافكا أن “على الكتاب أن يكون الفأس التي تكسر البحر المتجمد فينا” حسناً. هذا الكتاب لا يقوم بذلك. لكن يمكن اعتبار هذا الكتاب شيء أقرب للتلويح بالفأس في الهواء تحضيراً لتلك الضربة التي ستكسر الجليد. "حقاً إن الخبز والسيرك شيئان متلازمان, فكلاهم Leggi tutto

Arent is brilliant and a badass woman with amazing style. She's iconic.

starts beef with philosophical thought since socrates, but has a fresh and interesting view on what freedom is (spoiler it is a verb, not a state of being)

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