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100			_aArendt, Hannah
245			_aThinking without banisters : essays in understanding, 1954-1975
260			_bSchocken Books, _c2021 _aNew York :
300			_axxxvi, 569 p. ; _c25 cm
365			_b40.00 _cUSD _d77.30
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aHannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers'Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger'throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner rather than an answerer, and she wrote what she thought, principally to encourage others to think for themselves. Fearless of the consequences of thinking, Arendt found courage woven in each and every strand of human freedom. In 1951 she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1958 The Human Condition, in 1961 Between Past and Future, in 1963 On Revolution and Eichmann in Jerusalem, in 1968 Men in Dark Times, in 1970 On Violence, in 1972 Crises of the Republic, and in 1978, posthumously, The Life of the Mind. Starting at the turn of the twenty-first century, Schocken Books has published a series of collections of Arendt's unpublished and uncollected writings, of which Thinking Without a Banister is the fifth volume. The title refers to Arendt's description of her experience of thinking, an activity she indulged without any of the traditional religious, moral, political, or philosophic pillars of support. The book's contents are varied: the essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind as well as her character, acquainting the reader with the person Arendt was, and who has hardly yet been appreciated or understood. (Edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn).
650			_aModern Philosophy
650			_aAdam,John
650			_aFrench Revolution
650			_aNuclear threat
650			_aBolshevism
650			_aChristianity
650			_aClassless society
650			_aEichman trial
650			_aImperialism
650			_aFrance
650			_aHiroshima
650			_aJudaism
650			_aLabor pyramid
650			_a Lenin, Vladimir
650			_aMarxism
650			_aNietzshe, Friedrich
650			_aRacism
650			_aRussia
650			_aSlaves, slavery
650			_aWorld War
710			_aKohn, Jerome
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