Reflections on Little Rock

Hannah Arendt

1959

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This text includes discriminatory perspectives on people of African descent. This text provides insight into Jewish history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote hate speech of any kind.

Preliminary Remarks

Finally, I should like to remind the reader that I am writing as an outsider. I have never lived in the South and have even avoided occasional trips to Southern states because they would have brought me into a situation that I personally would find unbearable. Like most people of European origin I have difficulty in…

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Hannah Arendt

1906–1975
Born and educated in Germany, the political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt was influenced during her university education by the German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). She fled to France after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, and then escaped to the United States in 1941, where she remained until her death. She was an editor for Schocken Books and a correspondent for The New Yorker, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. She taught at various American universities, including the University of Chicago, and the New School for Social Research. Arendt won a reputation as an erudite and provocative writer on political, historical, and philosophical themes. While she worked for Jewish communal organizations in France and in New York before finding a university post, her relations with the Jewish community were often prickly, as a result of her views on Zionism and Jewish responses to Nazi persecution.

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