Arendt
Americannoun
noun
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Arendt had written her dissertation on St. Augustine, who held curiosity to be dangerous, often tempting one to sin because of an insatiable hunger for one sight after another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Hannah Arendt controversially argued that pity is an “all-devouring passion” that only feeds on affliction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Hannah Arendt wrote that fascism wouldn’t have developed the way it did without the Dreyfus affair, and briefly mentioned that Morès’ antisemitic activities shaped the way that unfolded.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026
Du Fu, Baruch Spinoza and Hannah Arendt were all cast out of their communities by authorities who imposed narrow definitions of acceptable thought.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025
Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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