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a house divided
It remains the most perplexing legacy of the modern age. How advanced, democratic, secular and ostensibly enlightened societies could be at the nevrological and seismic center from which the Holocaust was to arise. And with this context, Hannah Arendt continues … Continue reading
hannah and her whispers
A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading
romance with terror
To acknowledge the power of the irrational. A kind of spiritual revolt of unhappy souls who in a negative sense become overwhelmed with the powers of ideology and terror, producing the perfect recipe for what Hannah Arendt defined as the … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Winslow Homer
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arendt: spooked horse syndrome
Hannah Arendt was certainly not the first person to mediate on the problem and ramifications of thoughtless evil. As opposed to the cunning, conscious and coherent variety. Her reflections of course, were not entirely understood, or else appropriated to serve diverse … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Max Beckmann, Philip Guston, Yves Klein
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spy catchers and butterfly nets
…Whether the Great Game spirit filtered from the colonies into the metropolitan headquarters of the major European spy services, or whether it had roots at home as well, it became a dominant trait of the secret service mind in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, Hannah Arendt, James Fenimore Cooper, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael dunn actor, Michael Garrison, Robert Conrad, Ross Martin actor, Rudyard Kipling
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the cult of the spy: broken english
…It was in the Afro-Asian colonies of the leading European powers, however, that the secret service tradition and myth grew most rapidly. The British metropolitan secret services-MI6 and MI5- were largely staffed at the beginning by old professionals from India, … Continue reading
holocaust: shredding the heavenly decree
Was Mahmoud Abbas right in saying the Zionist movement had links with the Nazis before World War II? That is not in question, but the assertion that the Nazis were dancing with joy with the fiddler on the roof over … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Eban, Alan Hart, alan schechner, Claude Lanzmann, Edwin Black writer, Hannah Arendt, Hayden Schlossberg, James Cameron, Jon Hurwitz, Josh Hasten, Leni Brenner, Martin Gilbert, Martin Heidegger, Naem Giladi, Paul Bogdanor, Shraga Elam, Tadeusz Kantor, Yehuda Bauer, Zeev Jabotinsky
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holocaust: keep the analysis to yourself
When the Redemption comes and the Messiah arrives, we are supposed to know all the answers. Until then, the where was god debate has no point. There are no theological explanations for what happened, and is practically a disgrace to … Continue reading
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