![]() ![]() In the preface to that collection, she gives an extraordinarily imaginative interpretation of a Kafka parable, a parable intended to illuminate "the gap between past and future"-the gap for exercise in political thinking-the gap in which we gain experience in how to think. We know just how deeply that sentence struck Arendt, because she not only used it as the epigraph for The Origins of Totalitarianism, she also adopted a variation of it for one of her most important collections of political essays, Between Past and Future. The important thing is to remain wholly in the present." That sentence struck me right in the heart, so I'm entitled to have it (Arendt and Jaspers, 1992: 153). I've taken a different epigraph from Logik from the one I mentioned to you before: "Give yourself up neither to the past nor to the future. ![]() In a letter to her mentor and beloved friend, Karl Jaspers, she wrote: A lot of work here, of course, but also swimming and walks. DURING the summer of 1950, when Hannah Arendt was on vacation, she was reading proofs for The Origins of Totalitarianism. ![]()
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