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Hannah Arendt : for love of the world / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.

Title
Hannah Arendt : for love of the world / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.
Author
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
Publication
New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.

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Description
liii, 563 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
"This 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."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
  • For love of the world
  • Hannah Arendt, for love of the world
Subject
  • Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
  • Arendt, Hannah
  • Women political scientists > Germany > Biography
  • Women political scientists > United States > Biography
  • Political scientists > Germany > Biography
  • Political scientists > United States > Biography
  • Political science > Philosophy
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Previous ed.: 1982.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-547) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 1. 1906-1933. -- Unser kind (1906-1924) -- The shadows (1924-1929) -- The life of a Jewess (1929-1933) -- Part 2. 1933-1951. -- Stateless persons (1933-1941) -- Loyalty is the sign of truth (1941-1948) -- A private face in public life (1948-1951) -- Part 3. 1951-1965. -- Being at home in the world (1951-1961) -- Cura posterior: Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961-1965) -- Part 4. 1965-1975. -- America in dark times (1965-1970) -- No longer and yet not yet: The life of the mind (1970-1975) -- Appendix 1. The Cohns and the Arendts of Konigsberg -- Appendix 2. German texts of the Arendt's poems -- Appendix 3. Ardent's doctoral dissertation: a synopsis -- Notes -- Chronological bibliography of the works of Hannah Ardent -- Index.
ISBN
0300105886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004107796
OCLC
  • 56653832
  • SCSB-11426357
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library