GERMAN 56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Swadeshi Movement, Hybridity, Liberal Democracy
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End of our last discussion: we talked about the difference between world literature and cosmopolitanism specific to marx and engel"s viewpoint and definition. Communism universal movement that was changing the rest of the world. Represented still as an oppressed movement that was still on the rise. ^^^ above indicates the contradiction between the two. Cosmopolitanism is multi-faceted and represents many different meanings and holds many different consequences w/ our understanding of the world. Seyla benhabib mentions 3 important names in her opening paragraph: hannah arendt, born in hanover, germany, studied classics, christian theology, and philosophy in berlin, heidelberg, and marburg. Influenced by martin heidegger and karl jaspers: fled to paris in 1933 and then to nyc in 1941. Fled to nyc as many jews did: born to secular jews, directed the commission on european jewish cultural reconstruction beginning. 1944: died in nyc in 1975, the origins of totalitarianism (1951), the human condition (1958), eichmann in.
