First published in 1993. This is a systematic introduction to the thought of one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The auth

It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philoso

Shows how Hannah Arendt opened up new ways of thinking about politics and a new approach to interpreting political history.

Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas th