A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts fromThe Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem
She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day-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.
The Portable Hannah Arendt offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature- The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.
By:
Hannah Arendt
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 466g
ISBN: 9780142437568
ISBN 10: 0142437565
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"The Portable Hannah ArendtEditor's Introduction Principal Dates Bibliographical Notes Acknowledgments I. Overview: What Remains? What Remains? The Language Remains: A Conversation with Günter Gaus II. Stateless Persons That ""Infinitely Complex Red-tape Exixtence"" From a Letter to Karl Jaspers The Perplexities of the RIghts of Man The Jewish Army-The Beginning of a Jewish Politics? Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795) Writing Rahel Varnhagen. From a Letter to Karl Jaspers III. Totalitarianism The Jews and Society Expansion Total Domination Organized Guilt and Universal Responsibility A Reply to Eric Voegelin IV. The Vita Activa Labor, Work, Action The Public and the Private Realm Reflections on Little Rock The Social Question The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern V. Banality and Conscience: The Eichmann Trial and its Implications From Eichmann in Jerusalem An Expert on the Jewish Question The Final Solution: Killing The Wannasee Conference, or Pontious Pilate Execusion Epilogue Postscript Holes of Oblivion: The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthy A Daughter of Out People A Response to Gershom Scholem From The Life of the Mind (volume 1) The Answer of Socrates The Two-in-One VI. Revolution Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) What Is Freedom? What Is Authority? The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost Treasure VII. Of Truth and Traps Heidegger the Fox Truth and Politics Permissions"
