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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought by Jerome (INT) Hannah; Kohn Arendt
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
Arendt describes the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill once more the vital essence of these concepts. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publ ...Show more
Crisis of the Republic (Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution) by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the American form of government. Through the connected essays, Dr. Arendt examines, defines, and clarifies concerns of the American citizen. A sampler ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's pos ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Category: Reference
'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This ...Show more
Hannah Arendt: the Last Interview by Hannah Arendt
Category: Biography
Hannah 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, about totalitarianism and hist ...Show more
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction
A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, hav ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
Category: Reference
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething wit ...Show more
Rahel Varnhagen - The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt; Barbara Hahn (Introduction by); Clara Winston (Translator); Richard Winston (Translator)
Category: Reference
A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt.Rahel Varnhagen- The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt's first book, la ...Show more
The 60s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine Staff; Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by); James Baldwin (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
The 60sThe Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by)
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more