The Portable Hannah Arendt - (Penquin Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism </i>and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i></b> <p/> 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 among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil. <p/> <i>The Portable Hannah Arendt</i> offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i>, <i>The Human Condition</i>, and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) was University Professor of political philosophy in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, a visiting professor at several universities including California, Princeton, Columbia, and Chicago, a research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, the chief editor of Schocken Books, and the executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, and an Arts and Letters Grant of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. She is also the author of <i>Between Past and Future</i>, <i>On Revolution</i>, and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>, which are available from Penguin Classics. <p/> <b>Peter Baehr</b> is a professor and the department head of the Department of Politics and Sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His publications include <i>Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World</i>, <i>The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism and other Writings </i>(editor), and <i>Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage</i>. <p/></p>
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