{"product_id":"essays-in-understanding-1930-1954-formation-exile-and-totalitarianism-9780805211863","title":"Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism","description":"Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. \u003ci\u003eEssays in Understanding \u003c\/i\u003eassembles many of Arendt's writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and into the 1950s. Included here are illuminating discussions of St. Augustine, existentialism, Kafka, and Kierkegaard: relatively early examinations of Nazism, responsibility and guilt, and the place of religion in the modern world: and her later investigations into the nature of totalitarianism that Arendt set down after \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1951. The body of work gathered in this volume gives us a remarkable portrait of Arendt's developments as a thinker--and confirms why her ideas and judgments remain as provocative and seminal today as they were when she first set them down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hanover, Germany, 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research. Arendt died in 1975.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461209067794,"sku":"9780805211863","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f507356-53f1-47cf-b86d-3dee767c8dc5.jpg?v=1730059942","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/essays-in-understanding-1930-1954-formation-exile-and-totalitarianism-9780805211863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}