Her discussion of the history of totalitarianism; her concept of ‘the
banality of evil’; her own experience of nazism and being a refugee, of
being stateless; and her thoughts on the contours of the human condition
as a plurality have inspired scholars in recent years. As Richard J.
Bernstein (/Why Read Hannah Arendt Now,/
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/why-read-hannah-arendt-now.html>2018)
wrote in the New York Times:/‘in our own dark time, Arendt’s work is
read with new urgency’. /
Yet, as one digs a little deeper, her work becomes murky and
troublesome: many have pointed out that Arendt’s texts – impressive and
thought-provoking as they are in so many ways – are marred by anti-Black
racism (Patricia Owens, 2017, /Racism in the Theory Canon/
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829817695880>; on the
concept of anti-Black racism, seeAhmed Olayinka Sule
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/09/black-people-racism-anti-blackness-discrimination-minorities>,
2019).
https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racism-and-how-read-hannah-arendt
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