| Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism Contributor(s): Arendt, Hannah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805211861 ISBN-13: 9780805211863 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: In paperback for the first time, this is a collection of articles, reviews, and essays from the first tow decades of Arendt's life as a writer. Here are appraisals of St. Augustine and Kierkegaard; a reevaluation of Kafka; discussions of postwar Germany; explorations of guilt and responsibility. Taken together, these writings give us an indispensable guide to the evolution of Arendt's thinking. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 100 |
| LCCN: 2004059004 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.95 lbs) 496 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt's writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and into the 1950s. Included here are illuminating discussions of St. Augustine, existentialism, Kafka, and Kierkegaard: relatively early examinations of Nazism, responsibility and guilt, and the place of religion in the modern world: and her later investigations into the nature of totalitarianism that Arendt set down after The Origins of Totalitarianism was published in 1951. The body of work gathered in this volume gives us a remarkable portrait of Arendt's developments as a thinker--and confirms why her ideas and judgments remain as provocative and seminal today as they were when she first set them down. |