Hannah Arendt, Author , edited by Jerome Kohn. Schocken $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4212-6
Arendt (1906–1975), among the last century's most eminent political philosophers, never lived to complete the final volume of her comprehensive tome The Life of the Mind
, entitled "Judging." This first volume in a new series of...
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Hannah Arendt, Author . Stanford Univ. $65 (360p) ISBN 978-0-8047-4499-7
The late German-Jewish political theorist Arendt returned repeatedly in her work to the effects and proper uses of power and authority. This career-spanning collection of essays will reinforce for any reader that these preoccupations followed her...
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Hannah Arendt, Author, Jerome Kohn, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13 (496p) ISBN 978-0-15-172817-6
This invigorating collection of Arendt's essays, lectures and reviews opens with a 1964 interview in which the noted political scientist and philosopher described her hair-raising escape in 1933 from Nazi Germany to Paris, then New York City. A...
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Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn. Schocken, $40 (608p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4215-7
This collection of erudite writings from esteemed political theorist Arendt (1906–1975) consists of essays, reviews, speeches, letters, and interviews published during the latter days of her career. Though perhaps best known for her studies of...
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Hannah Arendt, Author, Carol Brightman, Editor, Mary McCarthy, With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $34.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-15-100112-5
Those who read Brightman's NBCC-winning biography Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World will remember the snippets of this correspondence as one of the highlights. Wise, eloquent and loving, the letters chronicled a quarter-century...
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Hannah Arendt, Author, Heinrich Blucher, Author, Brace Publish Harcourt Brace Publishing, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (700p) ISBN 978-0-15-100303-7
In the 1930s Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a Zionist activist and Heinrich Bl cher (1899-1970) was a Communist. Each had escaped Nazi Germany to Paris, where they met, and then moved on together to New York City, where they spent their married life...
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Hannah Arendt, Author, Karl Jaspers, With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $49.95 (848p) ISBN 978-0-15-107887-5
The voluminous correspondence between political philosopher Arendt and German existentialist Jaspers, who taught her philosophy in Heidelberg, is a study in contrasts. Jaspers mistrusts his ``stale fame'' and postwar respectability after years of...
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Hannah Arendt, Author, Martin Heidegger, Author, Ursula Ludz, Editor , trans. from the German by Andrew Shields. Harcourt $40 (360p) ISBN 978-0-15-100525-3
For Martin Heidegger, truth stood in relation to thinking as a contemplative activity of un-covering
the character of Being lost to misrepresentations amassed over time. As these letters reveal, personal relationships also evolve in this way, as...
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Hannah Arendt, trans. from the German by Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill. Liveright, $26.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-324-09052-6
After moving to the U.S. in 1941, philosopher and historian Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism) joined a circle of poets including Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell, but her own poems “remained part of her private life” until after her death in...
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