Article: Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table.(Hannah Arendt; families used to discuss more at the dinner table)

The children of intellectuals confront history at the family dinner table. Over the clatter of forks on plates they hear their first discussions of the burning issues and insoluble problems, the provocative books, articles, and reviews that divide or unite communities. Their first dissections of novels and movies, plays and performances, come with the rib roast. Over salad they begin to see how the great world of ideas and ideals and the little one of personal experience and everyday life intersect. How do their parents and their friends apply what they believe to concrete practical and professional problems? How do they decide, and explain, what's right, what's wrong, ...

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