Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World

by ElisabethYoung-Bruehl (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $25.55

  This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition: Both a personal and an intellectual biography ...It represents biography at its best. -Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review A story of surprising drama ...At last, we can see Arendt whole. -Jim Miller, Newsweek Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or ...the example of Hannah Arendt. -Mark Feeney, Boston Globe An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and ...a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness. -Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Cover drawing by David Schorr