#84 - The Phenomenological Materialism of Hannah Arendt: A Dialogue with Samantha Rose Hill
Converging Dialogues
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What's Your Love?
Arent: romanticism is the most powerful anti political force in the world. She's very critical of rousseau's emphasis on empathy and pity, argues that it can only lead to violence. But looking at the way that arent writes about loneliness, hope, love, there's a common theme - these are human emotions. We all experience these things; this is part of what it means to be a person. That is specifically what makes them so powerful, if we allow ourselves to become vulnerable,. The ways in which they are manipulated by political forces that capitalise on love and hope and loneliness. For politicalgane, and so for her, they exist outside of politics. And
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