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The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
The Life of the Mind by Arendt, Hannah
Category: Non-Fiction
"A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." --NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction
Recognized on publicaton as the definitive account of its subject and ten years later hailed as a classic by the "Times Literary Supplement," this remarkable book has been foremost wherever the characteristics and problems of the twentieth century are discussed. Dr. Arendt's study begins with an account ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The 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 ...Show more
The Warriors - Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray; Hannah Arendt (Introduction by); J. Gray
Category: Military
J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he was informed of his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in October 1945, having been awarded a battlefield commission during fighting in France. Gray saw ...Show more
Thinking Without A Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975 by Hannah Arendt; Jerome Kohn (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction
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 phil ...Show more