Summary Of "Introduction To Hannah Arendt's Work" By Ana María García Raggio: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

The author of this work begins by underlining that THE WORK OF HANNAH ARENDT ESCAPES THE COMMON CATEGORIZATIONS. The main features of this run through the scholarly, the dialogical and the critical. Arendt's arguments, once examined, AVOID STANDARD IDEOLOGICAL LABELS (left, right, liberal, reactionary, socialist, etc). It was not only difficult to place it in the usual ideological spheres. Hannah Arendt managed to be attacked by most orthodoxies. To develop the theme, we have summarized the essentials of "From political action to the politics of terror", by Ana María Raggio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Nov 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201216689

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Introduction To Hannah Arendt's Work By Ana María García Raggio

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SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION TO HANNAH ARENDT'S WORK BY ANA MARÍA GARCÍA RAGGIO

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FROM POLITICAL ACTION TO THE POLITICS OF TERROR

The author of this work begins by underlining that THE WORK OF HANNAH ARENDT ESCAPES THE COMMON CATEGORIZATIONS. The main features of this run through the scholarly, the dialogical and the critical. Arendt's arguments, once examined, AVOID STANDARD IDEOLOGICAL LABELS (left, right, liberal, reactionary, socialist, etc). It was not only difficult to place it in the usual ideological spheres. Hannah Arendt managed to be attacked by most orthodoxies.

Life and intellectual concern

Arendt was born in 1906 into an assimilated German Jewish home. Her parents were sympathizers of social democracy. Her growing up in a Jewish home caused her to experience an early experience of difference from her social environment.

Arendt's first written work was symptomatic of these childhood experiences. It was about Rahel Varnhagen, a Jewish woman married to a Prussian official who lived her entire life torn between losing her Jewish identity and integrating into the society of her time via assimilation. Before she died, Rahel Vernhagen came to the conclusion that her Jewish condition was part of her essential destiny. Arendt came to a similar conclusion, though much more prematurely than her biographer.

Arendt studied with HUSSERL and had a direct learning relationship with JASPERS and HEIDEGGER.

The advent of NAZISM was a tremendous shock in her life. Although it also meant for Arendt a BREAK WITH THE WESTERN POLITICAL TRADITION.

Arendt is quite CRITICAL about THE TRADITION OF ILLUSTRATION. In her work, she argues that illustration has a link with TOTALITARIANISM. This political phenomenon will be one of the axes of Arendt's study in her work.

ARENDT SEEKED TO UNDERSTAND THE CAUSES OF TOTALITARIANISM

ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM

The book The origins of totalitarianism is a TURNING POINT IN HIS WORK. In it Arendt studies totalitarianism, tracing its origins to anti-Semitism and imperialism in the 19th century.

ANTISEMITISM

Arendt DISCLAIMS SOME EXPLANATIONS ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM. For example, the one that naturalizes the phenomenon by stating that anti-Semitism always existed or the one that identifies it with nationalism.

To this last thesis, Arendt suggests that ANTI-SEMITISM ARISES WHEN THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF NATIONS COMPLETES.

Nor does Arendt share the positions that IDENTIFY THE JEWS AS PROPITIATORY VICTIMS. That is to say, as mere utilitarian excuses for the manufacture of an enemy. This position leads one to think that the Jews had nothing to do with what happened to them (not in the sense that they have a guilt for the existence of anti-Semitism but for the reason why they were chosen as victims).

Regarding the latter (the Jewish responsibility) Arendt argues that THE JEWS CONFUSED MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM WITH THE ANCIENT RELIGIOUS HATRED OF THE GENTILES. This misunderstanding prevented them from perceiving the extent to which the Nazis' will to exterminate was reaching. He also influenced this misunderstanding the political-religious conception that led them to propose a kind of RELIGIOUS