{"product_id":"the-portable-hannah-arendt-isbn-9780142437568","title":"The Portable Hannah Arendt","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day—Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Hannah Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.The Portable Hannah ArendtEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003ePrincipal Dates\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Notes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Overview: What Remains?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Remains? The Language Remains: A Conversation with Günter Gaus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Stateless Persons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat \"Infinitely Complex Red-tape Exixtence\"\u003cbr\u003eFrom a Letter to Karl Jaspers\u003cbr\u003eThe Perplexities of the RIghts of Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Army-The Beginning of a Jewish Politics?\u003cbr\u003eJewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795)\u003cbr\u003eWriting \u003ci\u003eRahel Varnhagen\u003c\/i\u003e. From a Letter to Karl Jaspers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Totalitarianism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Jews and Society\u003cbr\u003eExpansion\u003cbr\u003eTotal Domination\u003cbr\u003eOrganized Guilt and Universal Responsibility\u003cbr\u003eA Reply to Eric Voegelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. The Vita Activa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabor, Work, Action\u003cbr\u003eThe Public and the Private Realm\u003cbr\u003eReflections on Little Rock\u003cbr\u003eThe Social Question\u003cbr\u003eThe Concept of History: Ancient and Modern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Banality and Conscience: The Eichmann Trial and its Implications\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Expert on the Jewish Question\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Solution: Killing\u003cbr\u003eThe Wannasee Conference, or Pontious Pilate\u003cbr\u003eExecusion\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoles of Oblivion: The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthy\u003cbr\u003eA Daughter of Out People\u003cbr\u003eA Response to Gershom Scholem\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (volume 1)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Answer of Socrates\u003cbr\u003eThe Two-in-One\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Freedom?\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Authority?\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost Treasure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. Of Truth and Traps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeidegger the Fox\u003cbr\u003eTruth and Politics\u003cbr\u003ePermissions\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e (1906–1975) was University Professor of political philosophy in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, a visiting professor at several universities including California, Princeton, Columbia, and Chicago, a research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, the chief editor of Schocken Books, and the executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, and an Arts and Letters Grant of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Past and Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, which are available from Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Baehr\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor and the department head of the Department of Politics and Sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His publications include \u003ci\u003eCaesar and the Fading of the Roman World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and other Writings \u003c\/i\u003e(editor), and \u003ci\u003eFounders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology’s Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305230946533,"sku":"NP9780142437568","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437568.jpg?v=1767741009","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-hannah-arendt-isbn-9780142437568","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}