Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive Regimes
Hannah Arendt is one of the twentieth century’s foremost thinkers on totalitarian regimes. For her, such a political development becomes possible particularly because people abrogate their faculty of thinking. Totalitarianism, in turn, breeds conformity, engenders an ethics of alienation. Moreover,...
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| description | Hannah Arendt is one of the twentieth century’s foremost thinkers on totalitarian regimes. For her, such a political development becomes possible particularly because people abrogate their faculty of thinking. Totalitarianism, in turn, breeds conformity, engenders an ethics of alienation. Moreover, language, too, loses its hermeneutical ability to conjure up other possible, alternative, imaginative scenarios, as the regime clamps down on the use of words and phrases, creating a rhetorically univocal echo chamber from which it becomes increasingly more difficult to escape. The observations of Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian journalist, corroborates Arendt’s reflections, underscoring her perennial relevance on this matter. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5acec1d0acdf44dd8394399d6736698b2025-01-28T13:35:29ZengUniversity of WarsawEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture2544-302X2024-10-01839211010.14394/eidos.jpc.2024.0017Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive RegimesAndreea Norica Bălan0https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1233-0612Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas, USAHannah Arendt is one of the twentieth century’s foremost thinkers on totalitarian regimes. For her, such a political development becomes possible particularly because people abrogate their faculty of thinking. Totalitarianism, in turn, breeds conformity, engenders an ethics of alienation. Moreover, language, too, loses its hermeneutical ability to conjure up other possible, alternative, imaginative scenarios, as the regime clamps down on the use of words and phrases, creating a rhetorically univocal echo chamber from which it becomes increasingly more difficult to escape. The observations of Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian journalist, corroborates Arendt’s reflections, underscoring her perennial relevance on this matter.https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/thinking-totalitarianism-and-tribunals/hannah arendtstanislav aseyevtotalitarianismthinkingautocracyhermeneutics |
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