Hannah Arendt

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, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of...

The brilliant thinker who taught us about the banality of evil explores another brilliant thinker and his concept of love.
 
Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine’s concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger....

The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an “incisive, deeply probing” essay on violence and political power (The Nation).

Addressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists. The public revulsion for violence that followed World

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Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and '70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. "Lying in Politics" is a penetrating analysis of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the role of image-making and public relations. "Civil Disobedience" examines various opposition...

In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe.

Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the “banality of evil”, it remains one of the most

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Hannah Arendt no escribió una autobiografía, ni tampoco dejó cuadernos de notas al efecto. Además, le arredraba la idea de proyectar una imagen pública de sí misma. Pero al tiempo que su nombre ha ido adquiriendo notoriedad y unas cuantas tesis y citas, entresacadas de su obra, quedaban elevadas a la categoría de lugares comunes, la obra original se ha visto progresivamente relegada, y su autora sometida a un proceso de estilización. La «auténtica»...

Bajo el título de Más allá de la filosofía se ofrece una serie de textos de Hannah Arendt, en su mayoría inéditos en lengua castellana, que dan a conocer el importante papel que en sus reflexiones desempeñan la crisis de la cultura, la poesía, el arte y la narración literaria. Al recoger trabajos y artículos redactados casi a lo largo de una vida, esta colección permite descubrir la articulación del estilo de su autora, la genealogía...

The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states. In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Identifying terror as the very essence of this form of government,...