Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

by Anne C. Heller

Book Overview

Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, 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 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of the kidnapped Nazi war criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 054445619X
• ISBN13: 9780544456198
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: New Harvest
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"