Volume 54, Number 4 · March 15, 2007
What Would Hannah Say?
By Jeremy Waldron
Reflections on Literature and Culture
by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
Stanford University Press, 360 pp., $65.00; $24.95 (paper)
The Jewish Writings
by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman
Schocken, 624 pp., $35.00
Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn
Schocken, 458 pp., $16.95 (paper)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt, with an introduction by Samantha Power
Schocken, 674 pp., $35.00
Why Arendt Matters
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Yale University Press, 232 pp., $22.00
Hannah Arendt was born in Lower Saxony on October 14, 1906. She grew up in Königsberg and studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. In the early 1930s, she lived in Berlin and worked for a German Zionist organization, collecting evidence for publication abroad about anti-Semitism in German society. She also helped run a sort of 'underground railroad,' getting political enemies of the new Hitler regime (mostly Communists) out of the country. In 1933, after having been arrested in Berlin and held briefly for a few days by the police, she fled without papers but with her widowed mother to Prague, then Geneva, and then Paris.
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