Daily Dose

From Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding 1953 - 1975, by Hannah Arendt

ALL

"All this to explain, after some toing and froing, I will not discuss the book."

From Politics and Crime: An Exchange of Letters

A Caricature

Clerihew of a Political Theorist

HANNAH ARENDT

"I simply can't,"
Said Hannah Arendt,
"Define for you with any greater precision
The origins of totalitarianism."

A Clerihew of the Disappointed Philosphers

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Holding his unfinished Sein und Zeit,
Said Arendt, "Seems to me... a little light."
"Once again, you thought it would be bigger!"
Cried in anguish, the blushing Heidigger.