Responsabilidad personal y colectiva
2020
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Se incluyen en este volumen dos breves ensayos de Hannah Arendt que adquieren una renovada vigencia a la luz del retorno de la tentación autoritaria. Tomando como punto de partida el juicio a Eichmann en Jerusalén y la controversia desatada por la cobertura que de ello hizo la propia Arendt en su «reportaje sobre la banalidad del mal», la autora reflexiona aquí sobre los procesos que conducen a la desintegración moral y política de la sociedad, sobre la responsabilidad personal y la responsabilidad colectiva, sobre las nefastas consecuencias de la incapacidad de pensar por uno mismo.
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Hannah Arendt
Author · 65 books
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).
