Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 563 pages

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement.

Praise for the earlier edition:

“Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review

“A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”—Jim Miller, Newsweek
“Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

“An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”—Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

Cover drawing by David Schorr

 

Contents

Illustrations
vii
Preface
xxxvii
Acknowledgments
li
The Shadows 19241929
42
The Life of a Jewess 19291933
77
Stateless Persons 19331941
115
Loyalty Is the Sign of Truth 19411948
164
A Private Face in Public Life 19481951
212
Cura Posterior Eichmann in Jerusalem 19611965
328
America in Dark Times 19651970
383
No Longer and Not Yet The Life of the Mind 19701975
438
German Texts of Arendts Poems
478
Notes
501
Chronological Bibliography of the Works of Hannah Arendt
535
Index
549
Copyright

Being at Home in the World 19511961
263

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About the author (2004)

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who now practices as a psychoanalyst in New York City, is on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

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