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Jenny Teichman reviews “Essays in Understanding” by Hannah Arendt.

Biographer Samantha Rose Hill shows the personal side of the sometimes-controversial philosopher who fled Hitler's Germany to become the center of NYC's intellectual scene

Hannah Arendt biographer Samantha Rose Hill devised a walking tour of Arendt’s Upper West Side, from the shabby first apartment to that comfortable decorated apartment 12A.

Hace poco me conseguí un libro de Hanna Arendt, con el buen título de La promesa de la política. Pero ese título, al cabo de un rato, no pudo dejar de recordarme lo que famosamente dijo Stendhal: que la belleza no es sino una “promesa de felicidad”. El inmediato contenido erótico de dicha promesa puede, con todo, desviarse a otros campos, ya sean sociales (el bien común), artístico comunales (las catedrales, las cerámicas, los tejidos) o personales ante la consecución de una obra. Otra variación del aserto stendhaliano se encuentra en Proust, para quien Venecia era una

Thus, the population was shaken up, forced into silence, and left without any possible leaders of resistance. So it was that ‘wisdom’ was instilled, that former ties and friendships were cut off. ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, I Can moral life survive dictatorship? When a government intimidates its subjects; when it sows mistrust among them; when it penalizes virtue and incentivizes servility, how might men and women keep faith with themselves and their fellows? Citizens of democratic states tend to ponder such questions, if at all, with a detached, even theoretical, interest. Dictatorships ha...