{"product_id":"9780691182261","title":"Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin","description":"Author: Kei Hiruta\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691182261\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers - and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish emigre intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented \u0026amp;#x27;everything that I detest most\u0026amp;#x27;, while Arendt met Berlin's hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, \u003ci\u003eHannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta traces the ArendtBerlin conflict, from their first meeting in wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the controversy over Arendt's 1963 book \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other at a 1967 conference and Berlin's continuing animosity toward Arendt after her death. Hiruta blends political philosophy and intellectual history to examine key issues that simultaneously connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including the nature of totalitarianism, evil and the Holocaust, human agency and moral responsibility, Zionism, American democracy, British imperialism and the Hungarian Revolution. But, most of all, Arendt and Berlin disagreed over a question that goes to the heart of the human condition: what does it mean to be free?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798842855582,"sku":"ADS-9780691182261","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691182261.jpg?v=1778120850","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691182261","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}