Hannah Arendt

✍ Scribed by Samantha Rose Hill

• Publisher: Reaktion Books Ltd
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Critical Lives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent--and controversial--public intellectuals of her time, publishing influential works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Samantha Rose Hill weaves together new biographical detail, archival documents, poems, and correspondence to reveal a woman whose passion for the life of the mind was nourished by her love of the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Understanding
1. Inner Awakening
2. Shadows
3. Love and Saint Augustine
4. Life of a Jewess
5. Turn Towards Politics
6. ‘We Refugees’
7. Internment
8. State of Emergency
9. Transition
10. Friendship
11. Reconciliation
12. The Origins of Totalitarianism
13. Amor Mundi
14. Between Past and Future
15. Eichmann in Jerusalem
16. On Revolution
17. Men in Dark Times
18. Crises of the Republic
19. The Life of the Mind
20. Storytelling
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements