{"product_id":"the-portable-hannah-arendt-9780142437568","title":"The Portable Hannah Arendt","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Hannah Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1975) was University Professor of political philosophy in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, a visiting professor at several universities including California, Princeton, Columbia, and Chicago, a research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, the chief editor of Schocken Books, and the executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, and an Arts and Letters Grant of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Past and Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, which are available from Penguin Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Baehr\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor and the department head of the Department of Politics and Sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His publications include \u003ci\u003eCaesar and the Fading of the Roman World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Protestant Ethic and the \"Spirit\" of Capitalism and other Writings \u003c\/i\u003e(editor), and \u003ci\u003eFounders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614955442450,"sku":"9780142437568","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d76dfaf-5f9b-4bbb-a14c-e936ec2d57f4.jpg?v=1732469070","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-hannah-arendt-9780142437568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}