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Essays in understanding, 1930-1954
By Arendt, Hannah & Kohn, Jerome
- ISBN
- 978-0-15172-817-6
- Publisher
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., c1994. --
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1994
Hannah Arendt sometimes denied that she was a philosopher, but these essays tell us why she may be remembered as the quintessential philosopher of our time. A German Jewish woman, she grew up in a country rich in thought and culture but unable to protect simple human decency. She fled to America, where political life was still possible but intellectuals were regarded as performers in a mental circus--...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
