{"id":1639,"date":"2016-11-27T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T09:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2016-11-27T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T09:52:42","slug":"forsoken-att-forsta-ondskan-hannah-arendt-och-seymour-martin-lipset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"F\u00f6rs\u00f6ken att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 ondskan: Hannah Arendt och Seymour Martin Lipset"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Magasinet Arens publicerar en l\u00e4ngre ess\u00e4 av Henrik Arnstad, d\u00e4r tv\u00e5 av USA:s fr\u00e4msta intellektuella under 1950-talet j\u00e4mf\u00f6rs och diskuteras; den politiska filosofen Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) och sociologen Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006):<\/p>\n

Hannah Arendt \u00e4r en v\u00e4lk\u00e4nd gestalt i offentligheten \u00e4nnu idag. Det tillh\u00f6r allm\u00e4nbildningen att kunna citera henne (orden \u201dondskans banalitet\u201d f\u00f6rekommer regelbundet p\u00e5 kultursidorna). D\u00e4remot \u00e4r hennes tankar s\u00e4llan \u00e5tergivna i dagens internationella akademiska fascismforskning, med undantag av rent historiografiska redog\u00f6relser. Seymour Martin Lipset d\u00e4remot saknar stj\u00e4rnstatus, men \u00e4r \u00e4nnu flitigt citerad inom den nutida forskningen. Lipsets texter om fascismens ideologi har fortfarande vetenskaplig b\u00e4righet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"img_8469\"<\/a>B\u00e5de Arendt och Lipset blev en del av USA:s propagandainsatser under kalla kriget, utifr\u00e5n totalitarismteori. \u00c4nd\u00e5 \u00e4r de b\u00e4gge mycket olika, s\u00e5som samtida intellektuella.<\/p>\n

Det problematiska med Hannah Arendts resonemang var att hon, framf\u00f6r allt 1951 med boken The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em>, skrev i en samtid som fortfarande saknade empirisk forskning om Nazityskland. Men Hannah Arendt sj\u00e4lv s\u00e5g inte bristen p\u00e5 empiri som ett problem. Hennes arbete var filosofens och hennes tankearbete skedde p\u00e5 fri hand. Det hade f\u00f6rdelen att Arendt f\u00f6rm\u00e5dde t\u00e4nka nytt. Hennes arbete vitaliserade diskussionen kring fascismens ideologiska praktik, manifesterad i den tyska nazismen och F\u00f6rintelsen. Men i detta l\u00e5g \u00e4ven en skillnad mot den samtida sociologen Seymour Martin Lipset, som ist\u00e4llet anv\u00e4nde sig av tillg\u00e4ngligt k\u00e4llmaterial n\u00e4r han 1961 utgav verket Political Man: The Social Basis of Politics<\/em>. \u00c4ven Lipset var verksam inom totalitarismteori \u2013\u00a0men hans slutsatser skiljde sig markant fr\u00e5n Arendts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"img_8471\"<\/a>Jag vill f\u00f6resl\u00e5 att Lipsets tankar \u00e4r h\u00f6gst relevanta idag, utifr\u00e5n ultranationalismens framg\u00e5ngar. Oftast diskuteras ”v\u00e4nsterns kris”, men Lipset satte fingret p\u00e5 fascismen som en ”mittens extremism” (j\u00e4mf\u00f6r med begreppen ”v\u00e4nsterextremism” och ”h\u00f6gerextremism”). Lipset skrev:<\/p>\n

As the Nazis grew, the liberal bourgeois center parties, based on the less traditionalist elements of German society \u2013 primarily small business and white-collar workers \u2013 completely collapsed. Between 1928 and 1932 these parties lost almost 80 per cent of their vote, and their proportion of the total vote dropped from a quarter to less than 3 per cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

L\u00e4s hela ess\u00e4n i magasinet Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magasinet Arens publicerar en l\u00e4ngre ess\u00e4 av Henrik Arnstad, d\u00e4r tv\u00e5 av USA:s fr\u00e4msta intellektuella under 1950-talet j\u00e4mf\u00f6rs och diskuteras; den politiska filosofen Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) och sociologen Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006): Hannah Arendt \u00e4r en v\u00e4lk\u00e4nd gestalt i offentligheten \u00e4nnu idag. Det tillh\u00f6r allm\u00e4nbildningen att kunna citera henne (orden \u201dondskans banalitet\u201d f\u00f6rekommer regelbundet p\u00e5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyhet","entry-image--portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8471.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}