Hannah Arendt: Philosopher of Dark Times
Explore the life and ideas of Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany and transformed her firsthand experience of totalitarianism into groundbreaking political philosophy that still illuminates our understanding of power, freedom, and evil.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is being destroyed.
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