Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic

05/12/2024 36 min
Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic

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German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was someone who thought and wrote about some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, so it might seem strange to suggest that her conception of politics was primarily aesthetic. But she herself once said that she only wanted to understand the world, not to change it.