When I was in graduate school I read many books that shaped my understanding of historical events, but few did so as profoundly as Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men. By using a battalion of reservists as a case study, Browning showed the process by which men not motivated by ideology or hatred or ...
This wasn't what I'd hoped it would be, but I think the fault was probably my expectations rather than the book itself. I'm not much for philosophy; I much prefer history. I was hoping for a thorough, fact-driven analysis of the various totalitarian regimes throughout history, determining key charac...
This book should be required reading for any citizen of the United States in 2017. Unless you're used to plowing through college-level texts at high speed, it could prove a bit challenging, but even if you only understand about 25% of what you're reading, that will still put you well ahead of th...
„Ludzie w mrocznych czasach” to zbiór szkiców biograficznych ludzi, którym dane było zyć lub umrzeć w czasach terroru faszystowskiego lub zawieruchy rewolucyjnej tuż po I wojnie światowej. Z ubolewanie musze przyznać, że niektóre osoby były mi obce o ich istnieniu dowiedziałem się dopiero z kart ksi...
I had never heard of “The Human Condition” before one of my professors brought it up in class and said we would be reading it for the course. Seeing as how there is high praise for Arendt written on the back cover and the reviews on Goodreads are quite high, I expected to at least somewhat enjoy it....
It is difficult to write a good review of a collection of articles and essays which do not have a common theme, some of which, frankly, are pieces written for specific occasions which may well have otherwise not found Arendt's close attention. But the quality of the writing and the interest of the c...
These interviews with Arendt are interesting and somewhat disconnected vignettes. Arendt is undoubtedly brilliant, but also, somehow, (perhaps intentionally) off-putting and brash. I found her commentary around her Eichmann writings and the reactions to them most interesting, but certainly would hav...
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