The Portable Hannah Arendt (Penquin Classics) - Softcover

Arendt, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437565 ISBN 13: 9780142437568

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003

Synopsis

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her treatment of work and labour; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual.

About this title

About the Author:

Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142437565
• ISBN 13: 9780142437568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640