<div>&ldquo;A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsweek Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt&rsquo;s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. This final achievement, presented here in a complete one-volume edition, may be seen as a legacy to our own and future generations.</div>

The Life of the Mind

<div>Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht&rsquo;s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study &ldquo;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&rdquo; an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin&rsquo;s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier&rsquo;s preface explores Benjamin&rsquo;s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892&ndash;1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.? </div>

Illuminations

<div>The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states. In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Identifying terror as the very essence of this form of government, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses and the use of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world&mdash;and in her brilliant concluding chapter, she analyzes the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination. &ldquo;The most original and profound&mdash;therefore the most valuable&mdash;political theoretician of our times.&rdquo; &mdash;Dwight Macdonald, The New Leader</div>

Totalitarianism

<div>Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and &rsquo;70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. &ldquo;Lying in Politics&rdquo; is a penetrating analysis of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the role of image-making and public relations. &ldquo;Civil Disobedience&rdquo; examines various opposition movements, from the Freedom Riders to the war resisters to the segregationists. And in two additional essays, Hannah Arendt delves into issues of revolution and violence. Wise and insightful, these pieces offer historical perspective on problems and controversies that still plague the United States in the twenty-first century.</div>

Crises of the Republic

<div>The brilliant thinker who taught us about the banality of evil explores another brilliant thinker and his concept of love. Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine&rsquo;s concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her most influential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts she was using in her political works of the same period. The dissertation became a bridge over which Arendt traveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York, carrying with her Augustine&#39;s question about the possibility of social life in an age of rapid political and moral change. In Love and Saint Augustine, political science professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and philosophy professor Judith Chelius Stark make this important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt&rsquo;s own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents as well as the recollections of Arendt&#39;s friends and colleagues during her later years. &ldquo;Both the dissertation and the accompanying essay are accessible to informed lay readers. Scott and Stark&#39;s conclusions about the cohesive evolution of Arendt&rsquo;s thought are compelling but leave room for continuing discussion.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;A revelation.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Love and Saint Augustine

<div>The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an &ldquo;incisive, deeply probing&rdquo; essay on violence and political power (The Nation).Addressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists. The public revulsion for violence that followed World War II has dissipated, as have the nonviolent philosophies of the early civil rights movement. Contemplating how this reversal came about and where it might lead, Arendt examines the relationship between war and politics, violence and power. She questions the nature of violent behavior and identifies the causes of its many manifestations. Ultimately, she argues against Mao Tse-tung&rsquo;s dictum that &ldquo;power grow out of the barrel of a gun,&rdquo; proposing instead that &ldquo;power and violence are opposite; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.&rdquo;&ldquo;Written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times.&rdquo;&mdash;The Nation</div>

On Violence

<div>In the second volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the decline of European colonialism and the outbreak of WWI. Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the &ldquo;banality of evil&rdquo;, it remains one of the most referenced works in studies and discussions of totalitarian movements around the world.In this second volume, Imperialism, Dr. Hannah Arendt examines the cruel epoch of declining European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of the First World War. Through portraits of Disraili, Cecil Rhodes, Gobineau, Proust, and T.E. Lawrence, Arendt illustrates how this era ended with the decline of the nation-state and the disintegration of Europe&rsquo;s class society. These two events, Arendt argues, generated totalitarianism, which in turn produced the Holocaust.&ldquo;The most original and profound&mdash;therefore the most valuable&mdash;political theorist of our times.&rdquo;&mdash;Dwight MacDonald, The New Leader</div>

Imperialism

<div>In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe. Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the &ldquo;banality of evil&rdquo;, it remains one of the most referenced works in studies and discussions of totalitarian movements around the world.In this first volume, Antisemitism, Dr. Hannah Arendt traces the rise of antisemitism to Central and Western European Jewish history during the 19th century. With the appearance of the first political activity by antisemitic parties in the 1870s and 1880s, Arendt states, the machinery that led to the horrors of the Holocaust was set in motion. The Dreyfus Affair, in Arendt&rsquo;s view, was &ldquo;a kind of dress rehearsal&rdquo;&mdash;the first modern use of antisemitism as an instrument of public policy and of hysteria as a political weapon.&ldquo;The most original and profound&mdash;therefore the most valuable&mdash;political theorist of our times.&rdquo;&mdash;Dwight MacDonald, The New Leader</div>

Hannah Arendt

Books By Hannah Arendt (8 Books)

The Life of the Mind

Illuminations

Totalitarianism

Crises of the Republic

Love and Saint Augustine

On Violence

Imperialism

Antisemitism

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