File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0404, message 19


Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 11:21:36 -0500
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Drama in Philosophy- the banality of eros



Eric wrote,


> Hugh,
>
> I couldn't tell from your posting if you were aware of who Hannah Arendt
> was or of the great irony in the fact that this affair was between one
> who became one of the great philosophers who thought in the wake of the
> holocaust and another who came to be remembered for his great silence in
> the wake of the holocaust.
>
> Did you know that Lyotard wrote a very interesting essay on the
> philosophy of Hannah Arendt?

I was an admirer of Arendt before I heard of  Lyotard.  She spoke of the
banality of evil, if
memory serves, but not, to my knowledge, the banality of eros.

What was her understanding of the banality of eros, or yours?

regards,
Hugh




   

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