That is some good context, thank you. I wasn't planning on reading Arendt specifically for her take on the holocaust - more for her general views. Adorno is ano

That is some good context, thank you. I wasn't planning on reading Arendt specifically for her take on the holocaust - more for her general views. Adorno is another philosopher I hear brought up a lot in this context and I'm mostly unfamiliar with his positions. I have at most a rudimentary understanding of that Frankfurt school of critical theory. One of the problems of being an amateur is that I don't really follow a systematic path through material. Critical Theory is probably the most contemporary connection in the timeline of philosophy that I am drawn to (Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger) although I am probably more interested in American Pragmatism (Peirce, James, Rorty). Postmodernism is a bit beyond me at this point, it just gets too political with its connection to Marx. I honestly would prefer to stay in the meta-physical.