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BOOKS by Hannah Arendt

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendtas authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendtas postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections more books like this

by Walter Benjamin, Professor Hannah Arendt (Designer)

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.

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Human Condition

Human Condition more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then -- ...

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Recognized on publicaton as the definitive account of its subject and ten years later hailed as a classic by the "Times Literary Supplement," this remarkable book has been foremost wherever the characteristics and problems of the twentieth century are discussed. Dr. Arendt's study begins with an account of the rise in the nineteenth century and ...

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On violence

On violence more books like this

by Hannah Arendt

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. "Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times"(Nation). Index.

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Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing

Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

The author's final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man's mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.

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On Revolution

On Revolution more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.

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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I

Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I more books like this

by Karl Jaspers, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Professor Hannah Arendt (Photographer)

A part of Jaspers s planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.

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Letters: 1925-1975

Letters: 1925-1975 more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt, Dr. Martin Heidegger, Ursula Ludz (Editor)

These letters between two intellectuals who were devoted friends span the middle years of a turbulent century in which both played major roles in the world of ideas.

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Between Past and Future

Between Past and Future more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, ...

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: 6a Report on the Banality of Evil more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

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The Promise of Politics more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx' s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle ...

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Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975 more books like this

by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Carol Brightman (Editor)

Brightman collects an astounding set of letters sent between McCarthy and Arendt that amount to nothing less than an intense epistolary friendship maintained over 25 years, beginning in 1949 and ending with Arendt's death. Both writers describe their American literary milieu in great detail and provide an informal history of the period, from an ...

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Nathan the Wise, Minna Von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings more books like this

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Peter Demetz (Editor), Hannah Arendt (Foreword by)

Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for the Freemasons, and selections from ...

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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt, Professor Liliane Weissberg (Introduction by), Clara Winston (Translator)

This is Hannah Arendt's third and most extensive biography of Ms. Rahel Levin Varnhagen. As a young student in the 1920s, Ms. Arendt discovered Ms. Varnhagen's letters and memoirs in a Berlin library, and came to form an intense identification with her. Though 130 years separated them, they had much in common: Both were Jewish woman living in ...

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Crisis of the Republic: Lying in Politics Civil Disobedience on Violence Thoughts on Politics... more books like this

by Hannah Arendt

A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.

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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

In the final volume, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in history-the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Index.

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Men in Dark Times more books like this

by Hannah Arendt

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

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Correspondence 1926-1969 more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers

The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers begins in 1926, when the twenty-year-old Arendt studied philosophy with Jaspers in Heidelberg. It is interrupted by Arendt's emigration and Jaspers's "inner emigration", and it is resumed immediately after World War II. The initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close ...

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Responsibility and Judgment more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how ...

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Love and Saint Augustine more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt, Judith Chelius Stark (Editor), Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott (Editor)

Editors Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make Hannah Arendt's important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents. "A revelation that ...

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Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse more books like this

by Professor Richard Wolin

This book explores how four of philosopher Martin Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking. 5 halftones.

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On Revolution: 6 more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought more books like this

by Professor Hannah Arendt

Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, ...

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The Portable Hannah Arendt more books like this

by Peter R Baehr, Hannah Arendt

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including "The Origins of Totalitarianism," "Between Past and Future," "Men in Dark Times," "The Jew as Pariah," and ...

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