Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt.
Arendt died in 1975..
She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research.
She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948.
About the Author: Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II.
The body of work gathered in this volume gives us a remarkable portrait of Arendt\'s developments as a thinker--and confirms why her ideas and judgments remain as provocative and seminal today as they were when she first set them down.
Augustine, existentialism, Kafka, and Kierkegaard: relatively early examinations of Nazism, responsibility and guilt, and the place of religion in the modern world: and her later investigations into the nature of Totalitarianism that Arendt set down after The Origins of Totalitarianism was published in 1951.
Included here are illuminating discussions of St.
Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt\'s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and into the 1950s.
She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning.
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt
