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Arendt And America
Hardback Edition: 1
German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next 30 years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite
the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly considered the influence of America on her thought - until now. In Arendt and America, historian Richard H. King argues that while all of Arendt's work was haunted by her experience of totalitarianism, it was only in her adopted homeland that she was able to formulate the idea of the modern republic as an alternative to totalitarian rule.
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Pages : 416
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Publication date : 2015-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure