Hannah Arendt
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The renowned political thinker and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism examines the troubling consequences of humanity's increasing power.
A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant today than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind in terms of its ever-expanding capabilities. Her analysis reveals a troubling paradox: that as human...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Publication Date
1968
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history—now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.
A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.
The book begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in
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Series
Publisher
Melville House
Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A unique selection of the most significant interviews given by Hannah Arendt, including the last she gave before her death in 1975. Some are published here in English for the first time. Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of "the banality of evil" which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry -- especially that of Dickinson, Rilke, and Lowell -- informed her work, only trusted friends knew that Arendt herself wrote poems. In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote more than seventy poems, many of them signposts in an overwise unwritten autobiography....
Author
Publisher
Schocken
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophersKarl Jaspers and Martin Heideggerthroughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "Banality of Evil" when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival...

