a dangerous damaging influence on too many people I’ve known during my 82 years
> On Feb 23, 2021, at 9:57 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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, see Ahmed 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 > <https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racism-and-how-read-hannah-arendt> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6657): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6657 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80854009/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
