Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most influential political theorists in the 20th century. She analyzed topics concerning anti-Semitism, discrimination, evil, and how societies function. Like most people, her life very much influences her thoughts and actions. An example of this is Arendt’s mother Martha Arendt who taught her not to withstand the anti-Semitism that occurred post World War One in Germany. This caused Arendt to transform into a headstrong woman that “when attacked as a Jew, one
In Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, the external conflict for the Jewish people is the Nazi regime spreading ideologies of anti-Semitism to non-totalitarian groups that are subject to their indoctrination (Arendt 1962:342). In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the external conflict described by Vladek’s story is the rise of anti-Semitism in Poland as the Poles gradually accept Nazi doctrines on the Jewish people, who were vulnerable to mistreatment. When a government or powerful group unleashes terror
Hannah Arendt, a Jewish German-born philosopher, writing for The New Yorker magazine, reported on the trial in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. In the trial, Arendt expected Eichmann, a man largely responsible for six million deaths, to be a monster -- she expected to meet a man lacking basic human feelings. She found