{"product_id":"hannah-arendt-a-life-in-dark-times-9781504073387","title":"Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed biographer presents \"a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher\" and author of \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Arendt's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt's contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a \"conscious pariah\"--one of those rare people who doesn't \"lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us\" and will not \"pay any price\" to gain the acceptance of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne C. Heller is a magazine editor, a journalist, and the author of \u003ci\u003eHannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAyn Rand and the World She Made\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a former managing editor of the\u003ci\u003e Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRedbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and executive editor of the magazine development group at Condé Nast Publications. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554387562770,"sku":"9781504073387","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90939da1-430f-4fdd-a2e4-f9940e307382.jpg?v=1731714600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hannah-arendt-a-life-in-dark-times-9781504073387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}