Eichmann in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt reads Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt

Humanity or Enmity? Carl Schmitt on International Politics

This article reviews Schmitt’s analysis of international politics from the period of the Weimar Republic to the early years of the German Federal Republic. It highlights the importance of Schmitt’s opposition to Woodrow Wilson’s policies and ‘liberal’ universalism more generally for his understanding of and engagement with international politics. Confronted with the decline of the state (the En...

Political Hermeneutics in the Writings of John Dewey and Hannah Arendt Provisional

Reflective thinking and medical students: some thoughtful distillations regarding John Dewey and Hannah Arendt

Reflective thought (critical thinking) is essential to the medical student who hopes to become an effective physician. John Dewey, one of America's foremost educators in the early twentieth century, revolutionized critical thinking and its role in education. In the mid twentieth century Hannah Arendt provided profound insights into the problem of diminishing human agency and political freedom. ...