Hannah Arendt - (Last Interview) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise." --Hannah Arendt <p/>In these interviews--including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur War--Hannah Arendt discusses politics, war, protest movements, the Eichmann trial, Jewish identity, and language with the incisiveness and courage that always set her apart.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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. <b>--Adam Kirsch, <i>The New Yorker </i></b><i><br></i><br>"The combination of tremendous intellectual power with great common sense makes Miss Arendt's insight into history and politics seem both amazing and obvious." <b>--Mary McCarthy </b> <p/>"[Arendt] took responsibility for observing the inhuman uses of power and for summoning her generation to judgment and action."<b> --Samantha Power, <i> The New York Review of Books</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>HANNAH ARENDT</b> (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 <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i> and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem.</i>
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