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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought by Jerome (INT) Hannah; Kohn Arendt
Category: History | 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: Politics
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 and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt
Category: Judaica | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Category: History | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in "The New Yorker" in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Category: Military | 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: History
'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
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954 - Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Category: Culture | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with me ...Show more
Hannah Arendt: the Last Interview by Hannah Arendt
Category: History
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
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt
Category: Culture
@Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.@@
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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: 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