Volume 51, Number 7 · April 29, 2004
The Lesson of Hannah Arendt
By Samantha Power
Hannah Arendt dated her awakening to February 27, 1933, the day the Reichstag burned down. From the moment Adolf Hitler began using the fire as a pretext to suspend civil liberties and crush dissent, Arendt said, 'I felt responsible.'[1] She took responsibility for observing the inhuman uses of power and for summoning her generation to judgment and action.
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