Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times - Paperback

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Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times - Paperback

Name: Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times - Paperback
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by Anne C. Heller

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by Anne C. Heller (Author)

The acclaimed biographer presents "a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher" and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews).

Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal.

Arendt's first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger.

In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt's contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a "conscious pariah"--one of those rare people who doesn't "lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us" and will not "pay any price" to gain the acceptance of others.

Author Biography

Anne C. Heller is a magazine editor, a journalist, and the author of Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times and Ayn Rand and the World She Made. She is a former managing editor of the Antioch Review, fiction editor of Esquire and Redbook, and executive editor of the magazine development group at Condé Nast Publications.

Number of Pages: 148

Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5.25 IN

Publication Date: March 01, 2022

ISBN	9781504073387
Author	Anne C. Heller
Publisher	Open Road Media
Genre	Biography
Format	Paperback
Published	March 2022
Language	ENG- English
Pages	148
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print