To Not Only Being Victims
Hannah Arendt is against the idea that Jews were only the victims of history. Starting from the idea that the Age of Enlightenment and the Jewish emancipation put the Jewish tradition and history in crisis, she is adamant that this same history is not only full of suffering, but includes a hidden t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política |
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| Online Access: | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/oximora/article/view/20113 |
| Summary: | Hannah Arendt is against the idea that Jews were only the victims of history. Starting from the idea that the Age of Enlightenment and the Jewish emancipation put the Jewish tradition and history in crisis, she is adamant that this same history is not only full of suffering, but includes a hidden tradition of activism that is important to uncover and to claim. The aim of these pages is to analyse the Arendtian thinking of the 30s and 40s in order to show some elements that can help us to understand what the loss of humanity means today and to indicate the possibilities of claiming and recovering it. |
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| ISSN: | 2014-7708 |