The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt

Download or read book The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt written by Peter Baehr and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt’s work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar.