Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom
After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the "banality of evil," thereby posing one of the most chilling [...]

For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century.One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and ofte[...]

After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt formulated her controversial concept of the 'banality of evil' and asked the question: how can seemingly normal people carry out genocidal acts? She found her answer by focusing on the machinery of Nazi genocide and the organiza[...]

Hannah Arendt is one of the most prominent thinkers of modern times, whose profound influence extends across philosophy, politics, law, history, international relations, sociology, and literature. Presenting new and powerful ways to think about human freedom and responsibility, Arendt's work has pro[...]

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of[...]

This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt's performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action's disclosure of the unique 'who' of each agent. It aims to illuminate Arendt's critique of sovereign rule, totalitarianism, and world-alienation, her d[...]

Im Sommer 1950 vollendete Hannah Arendt ihre große Arbeit über die >>Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft>Denktagebuch>Banalität des Bösen>Denktagebuchs[...]

Unter dem Eindruck des Holocaust, der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums, hat Hannah Arendt mit 'Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft' - zuerst 1951 in New York erschienen, in deutscher Übersetzung 1955 - zugleich eine Geschichte und eine Theorie des Totalitarismu[...]

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