The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Hannah Arendt

The New Yorker

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Social change Rebellion The 60s

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Hannah Arendt

Source

Reflections on Civil Disobedience The New Yorker

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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Germany Europe

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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Italo Calvino
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Invisible Cities
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Calvino, Italo. Le citta invisibili [Invisible Cities]. Giulio Einaudi, 1972.