![]() ![]() In the last part, she discusses totalitarianism itself. In part two, Arendt gives an overview of the imperialist and predatory policies of the European powers at the end of the 19th-and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The first part tells the story of the emergence of a modern, secular anti-Semitism (which Arendt distinguishes from what she calls 'religious Jew-hatred'). The Origins of Totalitarianism, the first major post-war study into the dynamics of totalitarian systems, consists of three parts. Already during the war years, and out of personal involvement, she wrote articles about 'the Jewish question', the problem of refugees and stateless persons and of imperialism and racism, which, in adapted form, were included in The Origins of Totalitarianism. ![]() In 1933 Arendt, being Jewish, was forced to leave Germany for Paris. Her admiration for Heidegger was severely tested as a result of his National Socialist views. During her philosophy and theology studies, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) attended lectures by Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann, among others. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sagan played a leading role in NASA's Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets. The film came out after Sagan's death, following a 2-year struggle with a bone marrow disease. With his wife, Ann Druyan, he was co-producer of the popular motion picture, " Contact," which featured a feminist, atheist protagonist played by Jodie Foster (1997). Sagan was author, co-author or editor of 20 books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977), which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dot (1995) and The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996), his hardest-hitting on religion. A book of the same title came out in 1980, and was on The New York Times bestseller list for 7 weeks. A great popularizer of science, Sagan produced the PBS series, " Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody award-winning, and was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. He became professor of astronomy and space science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and co-founder of the Planetary Society. ![]() ![]() After earning bachelor and master's degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1960. In 1934, scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. ![]() ![]() One of the finest points about the book is the lush literature and beautiful word imagery weaved by the Author, Michael Ondaatje. Set in an abandoned villa/hospital in Tuscany, The English Patient is a novel of four people maimed and broken by the war – A badly burnt and disfigured patient who is mistaken to be an English man but later identified as Count Almasy, the naive and simple nurse Hana who remained back in the villa(even when the rest of the staff left after the war) to take care of the English patient with whom she felt a special affinity, an Indian sapper Kip who is from the bomb-disposal squad and the maimed Italian thief Caravaggio who is a friend of Hana’s father and comes to the villa in search of her. ![]() Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.” Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. “She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. ![]() |