Understanding and Misunderstanding Arendt’s Banality of Evil Today. The Fragility of Checks and Balances in Institutions*
Author: Simona Merkinaite While we tend to think of evil as a peril of anti-democratic regimes, its banal form as an …
Hannah Arendt and the Catastrophes of the 20th Century
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu If I can be said to ‘have come from anywhere’ it is from the tradition of German philosophy. …
Hannah Arendt, Stefan Zweig, and Central European Despair
Motto: “Those very stringencies sometimes telescope events into dreamlike absurdity.” —William T. Vollmann, Europe Central.