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Flannery O'Connor's Mrs. Turpin, Hannah Arendt's Adolf Eichmann, and Dreams of Boxcars
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 42, Number 1, April 2018
- pp. 165-184
- 10.1353/phl.2018.0009
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
After covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, which ended in 1962, Hannah Arendt turned increasingly to the life of the mind, man in the singular rather than the men in their plurality she'd long insisted upon. To understand how we might avoid future evil by developing our capacities for thinking and judgment, Arendt drew on Socrates's idea of the individual as "two-in-one." Here, I use Flannery O'Connor's story "Revelation" to illustrate Arendt's conception of two-in-one. Finally, I consider how another O'Connor story, "The Displaced Person," challenges the reader to become "two in one" herself.
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