The portable Hannah Arendt / edited with an introduction by Peter Baehr.

By:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

Contributor(s):

Baehr, P. R. (Peter R.)

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TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: lxiii, 575 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780142437568

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Contents:

I. Overview: What remains? -- “What remains? The language remains a conversation with Günter Gaus -- II. Stateless persons. -- That "infinitely complex red-tape existence": from a letter to Karl Jaspers -- The perplexities of the rights of man -- The Jewish Army–the beginning of a Jewish politics? -- Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795) -- Writing Rahel Varnhagen: from a letter to Karl Jaspers -- III. Totalitarianism -- The Jews and society -- Expansion -- Total domination -- Organized guilt and universal responsibility -- A reply to Eric Voegelin -- IV. The vita activa -- Labor, work, action -- The public and private realm -- Reflections on Little Rock -- The social question -- The concept of history: ancient and modern -- V. Banality and conscience: the Eichmann trial and its implications -- From Eichmann in Jerusalem -- "Holes of oblivion" the Eichmann trial and totalitarianism: from a letter to Mary McCarthy -- A "daughter of our people" -- A response to Gershom Scholem -- From "The life of the mind" (volume 1) -- VI. Revolution and preservation -- Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) -- What is freedom? -- What is authority? -- The Revolutionary tradition and its lost treasure -- VII. Of truth and traps -- Heidegger the fox -- Truth and politics.

Summary: 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 Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil. The Portable Hannah Arendt offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.

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I. Overview: What remains? --
“What remains? The language remains a conversation with Günter Gaus --
II. Stateless persons. -- That "infinitely complex red-tape existence": from a letter to Karl Jaspers --
The perplexities of the rights of man --
The Jewish Army–the beginning of a Jewish politics? --
Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795) --
Writing Rahel Varnhagen: from a letter to Karl Jaspers --
III. Totalitarianism --
The Jews and society --
Expansion --
Total domination --
Organized guilt and universal responsibility --
A reply to Eric Voegelin --
IV. The vita activa --
Labor, work, action --
The public and private realm --
Reflections on Little Rock --
The social question --
The concept of history: ancient and modern --
V. Banality and conscience: the Eichmann trial and its implications --
From Eichmann in Jerusalem --
"Holes of oblivion" the Eichmann trial and totalitarianism: from a letter to Mary McCarthy --
A "daughter of our people" --
A response to Gershom Scholem --
From "The life of the mind" (volume 1) --
VI. Revolution and preservation --
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) --
What is freedom? --
What is authority? --
The Revolutionary tradition and its lost treasure --
VII. Of truth and traps --
Heidegger the fox --
Truth and politics.

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 Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.

The Portable Hannah Arendt offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.

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