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Hannah Arendt, née Johanna Arendt à Hanovre le 14 octobre 1906 et morte le 4 décembre 1975 à New York, est une politologue, philosophe et journaliste allemande naturalisée américaine, connue pour ses travaux sur l’activité politique, le totalitarisme, la modernité et la philosophie de l'histoire.

Elle soulignait toutefois que sa vocation n'était pas la philosophie mais la théorie politique . C'est pourquoi elle se disait « politologue » plutôt que philosophe. Son refus de la philosophie est notamment évoqué dans Condition de l'homme moderne où elle considère que « la majeure partie de la philosophie politique depuis Platon s'interpréterait aisément comme une série d'essais en vue de découvrir les fondements théoriques et les moyens pratiques d'une évasion définitive de la politique ».

Ses ouvrages sur le phénomène totalitaire sont étudiés dans le monde entier et sa pensée politique et philosophique occupe une place importante dans la réflexion contemporaine. Ses livres les plus célèbres sont Les Origines du totalitarisme , Condition de l'homme moderne et La Crise de la culture . Son livre Eichmann à Jérusalem, publié en 1963 à la suite du procès d'Adolf Eichmann en 1961, où elle développe le concept de la banalité du mal, a fait l'objet d'une controverse internationale. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. octobre 1906 – 4. décembre 1975   •   Autres noms Hannah Arendtová
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“La philosophie est une affaire solitaire.”

Responsabilité et jugement, 2003

Hannah Arendt: Citations en anglais

“Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.”

Hannah Arendt livre The Life of the Mind

Source: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), p. 12.

“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world… Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.”

Speaking of her book The Human Condition, as quoted in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (2004) by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, p. xxiv.

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”

Hannah Arendt livre Eichmann in Jerusalem

On the subject the banal normality of villains. Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, published in 1963. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)

“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them.”

Hannah Arendt livre Eichmann in Jerusalem

On the subject bureaucracy as a means of totalitarianism. Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, published in 1963. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)

“Real power begins where secrecy begins.”

Hannah Arendt livre The Origins of Totalitarianism

Part 3, Ch. 12, § 1.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

“The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.”

On the subject progress. Source: Interview with French writer Roger Errera, 1974. New York Review of Books. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.

“In a head-on clash between violence and power, the outcome is hardly in doubt. Nowhere is the self-defeating factor in the victory of violence over power more evident than in the use of terror to maintain domination, about whose weird successes and eventual failures we know perhaps more than any generation before us. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.”

Hannah Arendt livre On Violence

On the subject violence and power. Source: On Violence, published in 1970. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.

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