Suggests: Why HANNAH ARENDT Matters

The Autumn Garden Society (led by former Harvardwood NYC Chapter Head Spence Porter) announces our next event:

Hannah Arendt arrived in the United States in 1941 without a passport, a stateless refugee from Hitler's Germany and occupied France. Had she not escaped from Europe, as a Jew, and one active in Jewish causes, she would almost certainly have died. In 1951 she published On the Origins of Totalitarianism, the first of a series of stunningly brilliant and always controversial philosophical works focused on freedom and repression and the nature of political systems. She became a cultural celebrity in 1963 with Eichmann in Jerusalem, where she introduced her concept of "the banality of evil", an idea that even today is as passionately attacked as it is defended. Half a century after her death, she remains one of the most brilliant intellectual figures of the 20th Century, one of the most troubling…