The philosopher who warned us about loneliness and totalitarianism

Photo: Hannah Arendt. Photo credit: Fred Stein Archive / Archive Photos / Getty Images. Article by Sean Illing. Vox – May 8, 2022.

If you asked me to name the most important political theorist of the 20th century, my answer would be Hannah Arendt. You could make arguments for other philosophers — John Rawls comes to mind — but I always come back to Arendt. She’s probably best known for her reporting on the 1961 trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, and for coining the phrase “the banality of evil,” a controversial claim about how ordinary people can commit extraordinarily evil acts. […]

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