The Portable Hannah Arendt
Author: Arendt, Hannah
ISBN: 9780142437568
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Mar 2007
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts fromP#160;Plt;iPgt;The Origins of Totalitarianism Plt;/iPgt;and Plt;iPgt;Eichmann in JerusalemPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her dayP#8212;Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Portable Hannah ArendtPlt;/iPgt; offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: Plt;iPgt;The Origins of TotalitarianismPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;The Human ConditionPlt;/iPgt;, and Plt;iPgt;Eichmann in JerusalemPlt;/iPgt;. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.
ISBN: 9780142437568
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Mar 2007
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts fromP#160;Plt;iPgt;The Origins of Totalitarianism Plt;/iPgt;and Plt;iPgt;Eichmann in JerusalemPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her dayP#8212;Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Portable Hannah ArendtPlt;/iPgt; offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: Plt;iPgt;The Origins of TotalitarianismPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;The Human ConditionPlt;/iPgt;, and Plt;iPgt;Eichmann in JerusalemPlt;/iPgt;. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.
