Arendt and America

by Richard H. King

Book Overview

German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022656553X
• ISBN13: 9780226565538
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"