Volume 13, Number 8 · November 6, 1969
Bad Times
By J.M. Cameron
Between Past and Future
by Hannah Arendt
Viking, 306 pp., $5.95
Men in Dark Times
by Hannah Arendt
Harcourt, Brace & World, 272 pp., $5.95
Thinkers who are original and profound often mask their ideas in a style, not so much of prose as of thought, that is opaque to all but the most determined reader. This is obvious in the work of, say, Kant; and opacity of style may produce those long-lasting ambiguities that provide rich material for the work of the commentator. If Miss Arendt's work survives—and it is surely more likely to survive than that of most other contemporary writers on politics—we may well find that the darkness of her thought attracts a multitude of commentators.
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