Essays on Hannah Arendt

Power has historically taken on different meanings and functions. For Max Weber, power is merely instrumental, whereas Hannah Arendt sees it as communicative, and Michel Foucault as strategic. Although power is traditionally defined as essentially repressive and negative, I will argue along the lines of...

Writing after WWII, Hannah Arendt, in her text, The Origins of Totalitarianism, moves from a discussion of the plight (danger) of national ‘minorities’ and the altogether ‘stateless’ in the inter-war years of European history to a fundamental critique of the notion of ‘human rights’. Who...

Is evil the product of a misguided choice or the outcome of lacking moral concept? Hannah Arendt, an author of many texts including Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, was born in Hanover, Germany. She escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to...

Introduction Hannah Arendt is a unique philosophical intellect of the 20th centenary, and her believes still influences conversations in global politics today. She scripted a collection of books such as, ‘The origin of totalitarianism’ in 1966, ‘The human condition’ in 1958 and ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’...

On the topics of freedom, citizenship, and economics, Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx had opposing views. Born in Germany, Hannah Arendt was a writer who gained recognition for her political and philosophical theories. Karl Marx, who was also born in Germany, was a philosopher, political...

On violence by Hannah Arendt is an interesting reflection on History and Politics. In this brief but substantial essay, Hanna Arendt analyzes the historical facts of the sixties including/relating and comparing them within the context of the most important events of the 20th century. The...