Hannah Arendt

by Derwent May

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014008116X
• ISBN13: 9780140081169
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good small introduction to a major political thinker

Hannah Arendt was one of the great political thinkers of the twentieth century. Most notably her ' Origins of Totalitarianism' analyzed in depth the connections between the two great collective nightmares of the twentieth century , Nazism and Stalinism. Arendt's unique thought however touched on the very fundaments of political life and discourse. And in her great work, ' The Human Condition' she presents an anthropology of her own, in which active man, fabricating world- building man, and contemplative man are placed in terms of historical development, and overall philosophical meaning. This small work touches on some of the major themes of Arendt, including what is in my opinion, the great moral error of her life, the arrogance towards the victims she displayed in writing,'Eichmann in Jerusalem.' It is a good small introduction. But Arendt is a writer of such power and depth that the reader would make a mistake not to sample her own works directly.