Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Hannah Arendt
After a recent dive into the theological, philosophical, and political writings of Hannah Arendt, I found her so disturbingly prescient that I wanted to talk her ideas over with Dad—only to discover that Arendt was one of his earliest and most formative influences, and still is now, in ways that he only realized as we talked. So, in this episode, much about her writings and why Eichmann in Jerusalem elicited such a firestorm, why you should never say "it can't happen here," and that, contrary to popular belief, the most troublesome of all pronouns is "we."
Notes:
1. Books by Hannah Arendt discussed in this episode: Love and Saint Augustine, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Violence
2. Two movies: Hannah Arendt and Vita Activa
3. See Dad's Before Auschwitz and his recent article "Hitler's Theology: A Cautionary Tale for Today's Peril"
4. Kušnieriková, Acting for Others: Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency
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1 years ago
Okay new comment: sucks for sending messages. Hope you can make out what I was already yammering about. So to put it shortly: you make a false equivalence between left and right, and calling it a movement toward “purity”. Please give us examples where the political or religious left is striving for some purist leftist theocratic total society. Even the leaders of the ELCA disavow this as a goal, neither political nor theological.
1 years ago
Hey, first off I want to say I love your podcast, and the insights you both cull together.