Portable Hannah Arendt

<b>A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker including excerpts from <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism </i>and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i></b> <p/> 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. <p/> <i>The Portable Hannah Arendt</i> offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i> <i>The Human Condition</i> and <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>. Additionally this volume includes several other provocative essays as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.