«Il nocciolo duro e controverso della diagnosi arendtiana sta nell'attribuire questo collasso morale non all'ignoranza o alla malvagità degli uomini, incapaci di far proprie le antiche verità morali, ma all'inadeguatezza di queste stesse verità morali intese come norme o criteri di giudizio su ciò che gli uomini sono ormai in grado di fare. Questa è la sola conclusione generale che Arendt si sia mai permessa di trarre: la generalità del collasso, la generalità del cambiamento che ha travol...

Die politische Dimension der Freundschaft entfaltet Hannah Arendt in ihren klassisch gewordenen »Gedanken zu Lessing«, die das gemeinsame Interesse an der Welt betonen. Denn die geschlossene Welt der »Brüderlichkeit«, in die »Erniedrigte und Beleidigte« sich ehemals zurückziehen konnten, ist in »finsteren Zeiten« zerstört worden, der Rückzug ins Private gescheitert und das Vergangene nicht zu bewältigen. Hannah Arendt setzt diesen verlorengegangenen Möglichkeiten eine Vision der Freundscha...

Pensadora da crise e do recomeço, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) produziu uma obra incomparável sobre os acontecimentos do século XX e suas repercussões. Os textos reunidos neste livro atestam a sua capacidade em avaliar com rigor teórico e compromisso ético as principais questões de seu tempo, criando diagnósticos que se tornaram referência nos mais diversos campos das ciências humanas. Produzidos entre os anos 1950 e 1970, esses escritos, em grande parte inéditos, atravessam o período em que ...

This book follows the life of Noel Smith, a fictional American attorney who moves to the top of his profession after his studies at Harvard and Harvard Law.He has always been haunted by the heartbreaks of his earlier relationships. One with a girl he met during ski vacations in Rochers-de-Naye, Switzerland, and the other with his wife in New York. His devotion to work is intense and a substitute for everyday life.Tragic events occur as he approaches retirement age culminati...

Hannah Arendt dachte zeitlebens im Horizont Sokrates'. Schon in den amerikanischen Anfängen stellte sie den Lehrer Platons in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Versuche, ein politisch relevantes und persönlich haltbares Denken für die Moderne zu begründen. Meisterhaft entfaltet diese Vorlesung aus den 50er Jahren eine Apologie der menschlichen Pluralität. So wendet sich Arendt gegen die platonische Versuchung, der Relativität der möglichen Wahrheiten mit der absoluten Autorität eines wegweisenden Denk...

From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society...

Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers—Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger—throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner r...

**A deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fascism and authoritarianismIncludes two fascinating chapters that were later cut and are available in no other edition**In 1951, a monumental book by a relatively unknown German-Jewish émigré addressed the terrifying new mode of political organization underlying the twin horrors of Stalinism and Nazism. Herself a refugee from Nazi persecution, Hannah Arendt so...