"We are still living in Hannah Arendt's world... It is hard to name a thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first." Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker The combination of tremendous intellectual power with great common sense makes Miss Arendt s insight into history and politics seem both amazing and obvious. Mary McCarthy [Arendt] took responsibility for observing the inhuman uses of power and for summoning her generation to judgment and action. Samantha Power, The New York Review of Books"

HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century. She fled Europe for the United States in 1941 and spent her career as a professor at a number of American universities, including the New School for Social Research and University of Chicago. She is best known for her books "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "Eichmann in Jerusalem."