Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance by Michal Aharony

Author:Michal Aharony [Aharony, Michal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, History & Theory, Political Science, Political, General
ISBN: 9781134457960
Google: 4gHwBgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 28018049
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

5 Resisting Dehumanization

When this music plays we know that our comrades, out in the fog, are marching like automatons; their souls are dead and the music drives them, like the wind drives dead leaves, and takes the place of their will. There is no longer any will: every beat of the drum becomes a step, a reflected contraction of exhausted muscles. The Germans have succeeded in this. They are ten thousand and they are a single gray machine; they are exactly determined; they do not think and they do not desire, they walk.1

Primo Levi

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.2

Viktor Frankl

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