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Boromir's guess the famous game #730 - Hannah Arendt - NYCTC WINS !!!


I'm thinking of some famous figure, it can be a philosopher, politician, entertainer, scientist, fictional character, criminal, animal, being, etc.
1. You need to ask me a yes or no question about this person, for example, "Is the person still alive?," "Does the person work in the entertainment industry?," any question you can think of that helps you to reveal the answer. The host answers with yes or no only.
2. Maximum 1 question and 2 guesses per player per answer.
3. The winner can either start a new game or say "pass." In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another.
4. Can't edit a question or guess once posted. Delete ONLY.

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Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. In the popular mind she is best remembered for the controversy surrounding the trial of Adolf Eichmann, her attempt to explain how ordinary people become actors in totalitarian systems, which was considered by some an apologia, and for the phrase "the banality of evil". She is commemorated by institutions and journals devoted to her thinking, the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thinking, and on stamps, street names and schools, amongst other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

1. Born before 1920 ? Yes
2. Born in Europe ? Yes
3. Born before 1800 ? No
4. Scientist ? Not a natural scientist
5. Royal ? No
6. Mathemetician ? No
7. Super-person ? No, real, only superpowers observational, analytical
8. Born UK ? No
9. Author ? Yes
10. Born 1800-1849 ? No
11. Born before 1900 ? No
12. Fiction ? No
13. Economics ? No, not directly
14. Political ? Yes, but not as office-holder
15. American ? Yes, by immigration
16. Journalist ? Yes, but more, AND NOT PRIMARILY
17. Hebrew ? Yes
18. Socialist ? By background, reliably progressive later
19. Peace Advocate ? Human rights advocate primarily, anti-war, anti-Vietnam war
20. Born Russia/USSR ? No
21. Field Reporter ? No, except for one huge field assignment.
22. Feminist ? Probably identified more as a humanist, which would include feminism I presume.
23. Assignment involved war ? Yes
24. White ? Yes
25. Kidnapped ? No
26. Gerda Taro ? No
27. Natural Death ? Yes
28. Spy ? No
29. Born France ? No
30. Died before 2000 ? Yes
31. Government Assignment ? No
32. Deutsch ? Ja, for awhile.
33. Married to someone famous ? Had an affair with someone very famous, in intellectual circles
(Martin Heidegger)
34. Banging US president ? Nein
35. Hannah Arendt ? YES!!!

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Married to someone famous?

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Affair with USA president?

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Hannah Arendt?

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There you go.... :)

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Very impressive Wikipedia entry. I've certainly heard of her and "the banality of evil" but don't know much about her. Excellent pick!

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You bet. There is an interesting film about her time during the Eichmann era, her domestic situation, the fallout.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/

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A very unreliable film, full of ideological distortions.

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Please expand on that, if you feel inclined, or just summarize your objections.

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This will answer your question.
https://www.commentary.org/articles/sol-stern-2/the-lies-of-hannah-arendt/

Regardless of my opinion about her personality, I think you chose a famous and interesting person for the game. You good as a host.

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Very interesting article I take rather seriously. She does seem to have been rather ardently anti-Zionist (which I have no problem with), but on top of it, seemingly reprehensible in assigning blame to the Jewish ghetto leaders, which makes no sense, or in rehabilitating Heidegger. I suppose she un-linked the man's Nazi past from the quality of his philosophy. I also suppose she had a high tolerance for Zionist Jewish opprobrium.

There is also the notion of secular Jews, such as herself, being somewhat uncomfortable with Jewry, at large. That appears to seep through.

An Israel in a multi-ethnic state would have been an interesting alternate-history to contemplate. And at the time, during the forties when she was part of the debate, those options were on the table.

The notion that Israel has turned somewhat Sparta-like was, to some extent, prescient. A legacy of that is the never-ending never-faced never-resolved issue of the Palestinians, their territory, their human rights, which she did take a commendable concern concerning.

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Here is another very serious takedown of Arendt's treatment of Eichmann, Israelis & the trial :

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1390334198d9Ezra.pdf

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I know her very well.
Here she very famous because of her coverage of the Eichmann trial
I hate her.

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Why ?

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