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154. Hannah Arendt and Civil Disobedience -- John McGowan

154. Hannah Arendt and Civil Disobedience -- John McGowan

Update: 2025-04-30
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John McGowan joins the podcast again to discuss a recent republication of Hannah Arendt's essay "Civil Disobedience, which responds to Plato's Crito, Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government," and the leftwing mass movements of the 1960s. John and I discuss Arendt's importance as a theorist of revolution and totalitarianism, as well as the complex life of the idea of civil disobedience and its reception by Tolstoi, Gandhi, and King.

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154. Hannah Arendt and Civil Disobedience -- John McGowan

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