{"id":68376,"date":"2017-02-02T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=68376"},"modified":"2017-02-04T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T11:31:15","slug":"totalitarianism-in-the-age-of-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/02\/02\/totalitarianism-in-the-age-of-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftheguardian%2Fposts%2F10155031112201323&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"527\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/01\/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests?CMP=fb_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/01\/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests?CMP=fb_gu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On BBC radio and downloadable as a podcast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew<span class=\"ml__ellipsis\"><span class=\"ml__hidden\"> in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of &#8216;the banality of evil&#8217; when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Link \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bbc.in\/2ji9V1L\">http:\/\/bbc.in\/2ji9V1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/01\/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests?CMP=fb_gu On BBC radio and downloadable as a podcast. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/02\/02\/totalitarianism-in-the-age-of-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-hMQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154818,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/01\/09\/how-long-before-we-cant-speak-freely\/","url_meta":{"origin":68376,"position":0},"title":"How long before we can&#39;t speak freely","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 9, 2020","format":"status","excerpt":"I really do fear for what is left of the UK as it introduces legislation which is right-wing totalitarianism.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":159599,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/04\/06\/into-the-woods-a-film-by-invisible-folk\/","url_meta":{"origin":68376,"position":1},"title":"Into The Woods &#8211; a film by Invisible Folk","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/swBqmk14wRM A recent project I have been privileged to be involved in. 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