LEADER 03739cam a2200505 i 4500001 262994 005 20240621231956.0 008 150528s2015 mau b 000 0beng 010 2015017504 019 885225570910566322917237436 020 9780544456198 |q(hardcover) 020 054445619X |q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)ocn915135657 035 262994 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dBKL |dNYP |dJTH |dYDXCP |dFM0 |dTOH |dBTCTA |dBDX |dCDX |dOCLCF |dZWZ |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCL |dSFR |dOCLCQ |dJ9U |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO 050 00 JC251.A74 |bH44 2015 100 1 Heller, Anne Conover. 245 10 Hannah Arendt : |ba life in dark times / |cAnne C. Heller. 264 1 Boston : |bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, |c[2015] 300 134 pages ; |c22 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Icons series 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Eichmann in Jerusalem : 1961-1963 -- Death of the father : Königsberg, 1906-1923 -- First love : Heidegger in Marburg, 1924-1932 -- We refugees : Berlin and Paris in the 1930s -- Security and fame : The origins of totalitarianism and the New York circle, 1941-1961 -- After Eichmann : New York, 1963-1975. 520 Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of the kidnapped Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Arendt was a woman of many contradictions. She was brilliant, beautiful when young, and irresistible to gifted men, even in her chain-smoking, intellectually provocative middle age. She learned to write in English only at the age of thirty-six, and yet her first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations of Americans and Europeans viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous--and most divisive--work, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, created fierce controversy that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the great romantic philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. In this fast-paced, comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt's apparent contradictions and her greatest achievements to her sense of being what she called a "conscious pariah"--One of those few people in every time and place who doesn't "lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us" and will not "pay any price" to gain the acceptance of others. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Arendt, Hannah, |d1906-1975. 650 0 Political science |xPhilosophy |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Political scientists |vBiography. 600 17 Arendt, Hannah, |d1906-1975. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01427224 650 7 Political science |xPhilosophy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069819 650 7 Political scientists. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069858 600 17 Arendt, Hannah, |d(1906-1975) |2ram 650 7 Philosophie politique |y20e siècle. |2ram 650 7 Politologues |xBiographies. |2ram 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 830 0 Icons series (New Harvest (Firm)) 852 0 |bstacks |hJC251.A74 |iH44 2015