Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series

Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, 'a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day' (Harper's Magazine) Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past,

Eichmann and the Holocaust (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

The Promise of Politics (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Scheper-Hughes Nancy)(Paperback)

From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination,' humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its

The Human Condition: Second Edition (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, 'the theorist of beginnings,' whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more

The Portable Hannah Arendt (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem 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

On Violence (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the

Hannah Arendt (Hill Samantha Rose)(Paperback)

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon

Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? (Bernstein Richard J.)(Paperback)

Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging

Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

The most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker.This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In a

Love and Saint Augustine (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into

On Revolution - Faber Modern Classics (Arendt Dr. Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem (Arendt Hannah)(Pevná vazba)

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932

The Origins of Nazi Violence (Traverso Enzo)(Pevná vazba)

In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt s seminal work 'The Origins of Totalitarianism,' innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in

On Revolution (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

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

On Violence - Hannah Arendt

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 with student protest, Hannah Arendt's now classic work offered a startling dissection of violence in the twentieth century: its nature and causes,

Space, Politics and Aesthetics (Dike Mustafa)(Paperback)

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranci�re, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds

Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (Gines Kathryn T.)(Paperback)

While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt's treatment of the 'Negro question.' Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

Called 'the most important critic of his time' by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A 'natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was

The Liberation of Jerusalem (Tasso Torquato)(Paperback)

In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a

Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom,