Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research. Arendt died in 1975. From the Hardcover edition.
"A brilliantly erudite and imaginative book."
--Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun
"By insisting that politics remain a promise rather than a
threat, Arendt offers a hope that history has yet to justify."
-The New York Sun "Arendt demonstrated, brilliantly, how our
habitual view of politics as an instrument in the service of
private liberty, material gain, and social prosperity actually
increases the dangers posed by the modern world."
-Dana R. Villa, author of Arendt and Heidegger and Socratic
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