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The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Portable Hannah Arendt

Portable Library

Hannah Arendt - Author

Peter Baehr - Editor/introduction

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ISBN 9780142437568 | 640 pages | 29 Jul 2003 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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Essential writings by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her treatment of work and labor; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual.

Edited by Peter Baehr.

The Portable Hannah Arendt Editor's Introduction
Principal Dates
Bibliographical Notes
Acknowledgments

I. Overview: What Remains?
What Remains? The Language Remains: A Conversation with Günter Gaus

II. Stateless Persons
That "Infinitely Complex Red-tape Exixtence"
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 the 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
An Expert on the Jewish Question
The Final Solution: Killing
The Wannasee Conference, or Pontious Pilate
Execusion
Epilogue
Postscript
Holes of Oblivion: The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthy
A Daughter of Out People
A Response to Gershom Scholem
From The Life of the Mind (volume 1)
The Answer of Socrates
The Two-in-One

VI. Revolution
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

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