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| Hannah Arendt's work focuses primarily on the ways individuals and collectives can think and act in ways that escape the social and political conditions which inhibit ethical and imaginative thinking and action, broadly speaking. Her work emerges out of the tragedy and chaos of World War II and the holocaust, having escaped as a Jewish woman to the United States. | Hannah Arendt's work focuses primarily on how individuals and collectives can think and act in ways that escape the social and political conditions that inhibit ethical and imaginative thinking and action. Her work emerges out of the tragedy and chaos of World War II and the holocaust, having escaped as a Jewish woman to the United States. |
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| From my reading at this point, her diagnosis and response draws upon Kant, Heidegger, Socrates, and even Nietzsche's nihilistic diagnoses, to develop novel perspectives grounded in Kant's Critique of Judgment (and in various ways, [[:reflective judgment]], Socrates' views of the Greek [[:polis] and [[:enlarged mentality]] from the conversing of free men with each other beyond the myopia of private lives (in contrast to what we think now of restricting politics so we can be free individuals, and appointing experts to carry out the tasks), and Heideggerian critiques of rationality and technology. | From my reading at this point, her diagnosis and response draws upon Kant, Heidegger, Socrates, and even Nietzsche's nihilistic diagnoses, to develop novel perspectives grounded in Kant's Critique of Judgment (and in various ways, [[:reflective judgment]], Socrates' views of the Greek [[:polis] and [[:enlarged mentality]] from the conversing of free men with each other beyond the myopia of private lives (in contrast to what we think now of restricting politics so we can be free individuals, and appointing experts to carry out the tasks), and Heideggerian critiques of rationality and technology. |