Hannah Arendt and the Study of Evil

Posted by Valentine Belue on Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Philosopher Hannah Arendt spent her life examining the totalitarian states of the 20th century, coining the phrase "banality of evil." On the 100th anniversary of Arendt's birth, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl — author of Why Arendt Matters — recalls the life of a great thinker.

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