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Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
In a system of #terror, the concentration and extermination camps are not simply accidental occurrences, but the logical outcomes of a system that insists on the extinction of #human #freedom and human #spontaneity. Over and over again, Arendt insists that the concentration camps were useless from a utilitarian perspective. The Nazis and Bolsheviks could have killed prisoners and undesirables more easily in fields or villages. The camps were economically expensive and a waste of manpower. What the camps provided was training and experimentation in what absolute terror and undefined terror could accomplish — the denial of reality and the breaking of the #humanspirit. …
Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
In a system of #terror, the concentration and extermination camps are not simply accidental occurrences, but the logical outcomes of a system that insists on the extinction of #human #freedom and human #spontaneity. Over and over again, Arendt insists that the concentration camps were useless from a utilitarian perspective. The Nazis and Bolsheviks could have killed prisoners and undesirables more easily in fields or villages. The camps were economically expensive and a waste of manpower. What the camps provided was training and experimentation in what absolute terror and undefined terror could accomplish — the denial of reality and the breaking of the #humanspirit. …
Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
In a system of #terror, the concentration and extermination camps are not simply accidental occurrences, but the logical outcomes of a system that insists on the extinction of #human #freedom and human #spontaneity. Over and over again, Arendt insists that the concentration camps were useless from a utilitarian perspective. The Nazis and Bolsheviks could have killed prisoners and undesirables more easily in fields or villages. The camps were economically expensive and a waste of manpower. What the camps provided was training and experimentation in what absolute terror and undefined terror could accomplish — the denial of reality and the breaking of the #humanspirit. …
Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Such a #totalizing claim to be empowered to “fit #reality to their lies” is precisely the capacity that #Arendt finds in #totalitarian movements before they actually attain the power to do so. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and faction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between #true and #false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” …
Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Such a #totalizing claim to be empowered to “fit #reality to their lies” is precisely the capacity that #Arendt finds in #totalitarian movements before they actually attain the power to do so. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and faction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between #true and #false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” …
Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books
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