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“... regime seems to have been the first in history to set up hypocrisy as the chief political crime. Hannah Arendt wrote in her book On Revolution that in earlier political thought, from Socrates to Machiavelli, hypocrisy was not thought a serious political offence if it did not involve ‘wilful deception and ... false witness’ or the concealment of a ...”

“... self-possession of the clan. The problem, not least for the Jewish people, will not go away. Hannah Arendt, replying to Gershom Scholem’s criticism of her study of Adolf Eichmann, and in particular to his remark, ‘Of course I do not believe in God; I believe in the Jewish people’, wrote: ‘The greatness of the people was once that it believed ...”

“... experience of fascism: Leo Strauss, who sought wisdom in the esoteric ideas of elite statesmen; Hannah Arendt, who wanted to anchor politics in the creativity of human action; and Kissinger’s friend and rival Hans Morgenthau, who hoped to underpin international relations with a realist understanding of national self-interest (the two men fell out ...”

“... world is impoverished’, should himself hunger for those moments of ecstasy when – in bed with Hannah Arendt – ‘his awareness of the world shrinks to nothing and he loses himself in mindless sensual transports’?This text figures in a journal that, along with a jumble of other papers, Elizabeth has sent to her son, John, in America, with a view ...”

“... and Weizenbaum’s argument was broader than this. Like the thinkers he cites as inspiration, Hannah Arendt and Jacques Ellul, he was worried not about the individual but about society – about what might happen if we convince ourselves that machines can provide care as meaningfully as people. He was shocked not only by the users who embraced ...”

“... 1944, he would surely have died without committing very much to paper. As a counter-example, take Hannah Arendt: a philosopher of existence and the human condition who spent the years between 1933 and 1939 working full-time for various Jewish refugee organisations in Paris, and who published her first important work, the 700-page Origins of ...”

“... Runciman had devoted some time to the superb reflection on political hypocrisy and its exposure in Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution, first published in 1963. On Revolution is many things: a meditation on American constitutionalism, a lament on the passing from the world of a certain sort of high-minded engagement with politics, and a reflection on the ...”

“... quoted in Encounter – and went into a towering rage, writing that people like Marcuse and indeed Hannah Arendt were products of:the terrible twisted Mitteleuropa in which nothing is straight, simple, truthful, all human relations and all political attitudes are twisted into ghastly shapes by these awful casualties who, because they are ...”

“... of 1940 included nearly ten thousand women, hundreds with young children. Several were well known: Hannah Arendt; Dora Benjamin, Walter’s sister; Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of Lion; the actress Dita Parlö, whose character falls in love with Jean Gabin’s in La Grande Illusion; Lisa Fittko, a passeuse who risked her life guiding scores of refugees out of ...”

“... whatever had happened to his face to a more pervasive damage: ‘those famous deep wrinkles’, Hannah Arendt remembered, ‘as though life itself had delineated a kind of face-scape to make manifest the “heart’s invisible furies”’. She was quoting one of Auden’s own poems, ‘The Capital’, which describes how, beneath the efficient public ...”

“... by the fact that she rapidly rose up the party echelons to become a star. In the words of Hannah Arendt, she ‘was and remained a Polish Jew in a country she disliked and a party she came soon to despise’. It is a peculiarity of Luxemburg’s thought – one of her unique contributions – that her critique didn’t temper her enthusiasm for ...”

“... rest of the book relentlessly charts the way motherhood as an institution crushes that dream. For Hannah Arendt, in a passage Rich seems to be alluding to, every new birth is the supreme anti-totalitarian moment. In Arendt’s view, freedom is identical with the capacity to begin. Over beginning, she writes, ‘no ...”

“... scholarship. It has frequently been touched on, and it has been discussed at some length in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Susan Zuccotti’s The Italians and the Holocaust. But Steinberg finds unsatisfactory the explanation in terms of national character that such works offer. To say, as ...”

“... stateless.In her second statement in the Dáil on the commission report, Catherine Connolly quoted Hannah Arendt on the question of collective German guilt for the Holocaust: ‘Where all are guilty none is.’ Connolly was objecting to what she implied was government spin suggesting that rather than the church (‘with the politicians playing a ...”

“... as the French anthropologist Claude Meillassoux, the Congolese novelist Sony Lab’ou Tansi and Hannah Arendt are employed to discuss anything from the depiction of autocrats in Cameroonian cartoons to Christian eschatology to posthumanism. We may not be sure where all this leads us, but Mbembe has never been interested in supplying easy answers to ...”