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The portable Hannah Arendt, edited with an introduction by Peter Baehr

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages lix-lxii)

no index present

non fiction

The portable Hannah Arendt

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edited with an introduction by Peter Baehr

Penguin classics

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 labour; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual

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 -- 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 Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate ; Execution ; Epilogue ; Postscript -- "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) ; The Answer of Socrates ; The Two-in-One -- 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

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