Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is perhaps best remembered today as the political scientist and philosopher who studied Hitler’s Germany and other totalitarian regimes and described “the banality of evil.” Born in Germany, she earned a Ph.D. degree from Marburg University but was forced to flee to Paris when the Nazis rose to power. She and her husband Heinrich Blucher were forced to flee Paris after the fall of France and eventually settled in New York City.
She became the research director for the Council on Jewish Relations, editor of Schocken Books, and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, described by Britannica as created to “salvage Jewish writings dispersed by the Nazis.” Later, she taught at the University of Chicago and the New School of Social Research in New York.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
‘A prince of the English language’: Tributes as poet Michael Longley dies aged 85 – Adrian Rutherford at the Belfast Telegraph.
To Break a Promise – poem by David Whyte.
50 States of Generosity: Montana – Sandra Heska King at Tweetspeak Poetry.
English Breakfast – poem by Henrietta Lovell at Every Day Poems.
“A Winter Blue Jay,” poem by Sara Teasdale – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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