Why Arendt?

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Promise of the Future

In considering Hannah Arendt’s philosophical debt to Nietzsche, commentators have often drawn attention to the figure of the promise and to its central significance in the work of both thinkers. “The real problem regarding man,” as Nietzsche famously wrote in the programmatic opening remarks to the second essay from On the Genealogy of Morals, is how “to breed an animal with the right to make p...

Arendt on the Crime of Crimes

Fuller and Arendt: A Happy Marriage? Comment on Rundle

Democracy and Dissent: Strauss, Arendt, and Voegelin in America