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Between Past and Future
Introduction by Jerome Kohn
Arendt’s penetrating analysis of the
complex crises of meaning in modern
society and political philosophy is
presented with her impassioned
exercises for guiding readers toward the
reinvigoration of the concepts of justice,
reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.
336 pp. 978-0-14-310481-0 $16.00
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Introduction by Amos Elon
Arendt’s internationally famous and
controversial report on the trial of Nazi
leader Adolph Eichmann deals with the
problem of the human being within
a modern totalitarian system. This
posthumously revised edition contains a
postscript by Arendt and further factual
material revealed after the trial.
336 pp. 978-0-14-303988-4 $16.00
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On Revolution
Introduction by Jonathan Schell
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.
368 pp. 978-0-14-303990-7 $16.00
hannah arendt
Born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, Hannah Arendt moved with her family
to Königsberg when she was three years old. Her mother interested her
in contemporary politics, in particular the Spartacist faction of the Social
Democratic Party and its leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Arendt
studied philosophy at the University of Hamburg with Martin Heidegger in
1924 and with Karl Jaspers from 1925 until 1929. She married Gunther Stern in
1929 in Paris, returning in 1933 to avoid the Nazis and living there until 1940.
After escaping to New York, Arendt served as one of the premier members of the
faculty of the New School for Social Research and also as a Visiting Fellow of the
Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She originated the
concept of the “banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of Adolf
Eichmann’s war-crimes trial, and wrote extensively on political and Jewish issues.
She died in 1975.
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