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Eichmann in Jerusalem

rjeffnadeau wrote 2 days ago: What does justice sound like? What words evoke the fall of the judge’s gavel? If you ask me, t … more →

Tags: Recommended Reading, death sentence, Holocaust

Hannah Arendt on Lying in Politics

jenniferkwon wrote 2 days ago: [W]hen we talk about lying, and especially about lying among acting men, let us remember that the li … more →

Tags: political-lie, Politics

Sorry, you'll have to stand in line for 3 hours before you can read this blog, and we might take down the post before then1 comment

Mark Gisleson wrote 3 days ago: Politics: Bob Herbert with the sad story of Detroit Not sure where Ray D. Madoff is coming from, but … more →

Tags: corporatism, Economy, Global Warming, linkcetera, Politics, Republicans, Chuck Grassley, global warming denialists, Joe fucking Lieberman

Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy3 comments

Filip Spagnoli wrote 4 days ago: Richard Rorty (source) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal a … more →

Tags: Art, Books, Equality, Caring, David Hume, dehumanization, Emotions, Human Rights, Humanity

Strategy as co-created narrative4 comments

Chris Mowles wrote 4 days ago: Despite the fact that the literature on strategic planning has diminished considerably in the last f … more →

Tags: Complexity, leadership, mutual recognition, Planning, Ralph Stacey, Recognition, Strategy, Values, abstraction

Education and "The Dead Hands of the Past"

Brian Brown wrote 6 days ago: Something interesting I read today, in “Between Past and Future” by Hannah Arendt: “The testament, t … more →

Tags: Culture, Education

Almanacco del Weekend - 15 Nov. 2009

Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 week ago: Galleycat – Who needs a literay agent? London Times - Computerised exam-marker fails Churchill … more →

Tags: memoir, Hemingway, Slate, Nabokov, Martin Amis, the guardian, London Review of Books, Salón, Roland Barthes

Child labour... then and now2 comments

Ikiru wrote 1 week ago: I know this is completely off-topic, but I want to bring this to people’s attention.  I doubt … more →

Tags: Politics, capitalism, Child Labour, Congress, david sirota, Disaster Capitalism, Fair Trade, Free Trade, Globalisation

Banal evil vs. radical evil; or, Arendt reappraised1 comment

Lex wrote 3 weeks ago: I recently read an essay — in the New Yorker, I think, although I can’t remember for sur … more →

Tags: Hold! Them! Accountable!, Adolf Eichmann, Banality of Evil, Martin Heidegger, ron rosenbaum

hannah arendt at the university of chicago in 1960

Zach wrote 3 weeks ago: … more →

Tags: Political Thought, uofc, University of Chicago

Heckling the Nazi-Dems, Hannah Arendt/Nazi, Non-sexual Reproduction

vive42 wrote 3 weeks ago: Conservatives in the US have found an angle and they’re sticking with it.  Story One gives a s … more →

Tags: Conspiracies, Humor, Nazis, Nancy Pelosi, Eugenics, Ghosts

On History and Nature: Some thoughts on Arendt’s conceptualization of totalitarianism

L.M. Zapata wrote 1 month ago: (October 22, 2009) In response to an October 13, 2009 discussion on the influence of evolution and h … more →

Tags: History, Politics, Ideology, the World, history current, Totalitarianism, Great writers, Philosophy, Civil Society

The Untruth of the Exclusive Victim/Perpetrator

Lauren Stokes wrote 1 month ago: Don’t let me forget to write about this lecture. “In his speech in Frankfurt’s St. Paul’ … more →

Tags: Theories about Trauma, Holocaust Stuff, Holocaust education, the european idea, victims and perpetrators, Peter Esterhazy

An indispensable experience...2 comments

featherheart wrote 1 month ago:   Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, whi … more →

Tags: Literature, Photography, Fall Folliage

Women On Politics

O. wrote 1 month ago: (photo: Gracie Allen) Here are some enlightening, entertaining quotations from women about politics: … more →

Tags: Approaches to Political Language, Notable Quotations, Gracie Allen, Emma Goldman

Random Thoughts (Vol. 1)

yannaungoak wrote 1 month ago: The problem with my blog is that I spend too much time and effort writing each post, and about an or … more →

Tags: General, Comics, david brooks, Music, Rant, TV Series

Why Are There Genocides?

Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: Regular readers know that we’re not afraid of the big questions, and perhaps one of the bigges … more →

Tags: Horror, Law, Torture, Eichmann, ethics, genocide, Heidegger, Holocaust, mens rea

house

ottiliemignon wrote 1 month ago: The theme of all television is the tenuous relation of the public and private. Every essential genre … more →

Tags: Biopolitics, Cultural criticism, Desperate Housewives, Different strokes, house, liminality, one day at a time, Private Space, Public Space

Do you believe that space can give life or take it away, that space has power?1 comment

kevinduong wrote 1 month ago: I am procrastinating my readings (only momentarily, since I have a lot) for one of my really cool cl … more →

Tags: kevin duong, Theory, bell hooks, richard rorty, Social Policy, revolution, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe


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