Hannah Arendt (1906 1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career, philosopher Richard Bernstein situates Arendt historically as an engaged Jewish intellectual and explores the range of her thinking from the perspective of her continuing confrontation with the Jewish question. Bernstein argues that many themes that emerged in the course of Arendt's attempts to understand specifically Jewish issues shaped her thinking about politics in general and the life of the mind. By exploring pivotal events of her life story her arrest and subsequent emigration from Germany in 1933, her precarious existence in Paris as a stateless Jew working for Zionist organizations, her internment at Gurs and her subsequent escape, and finally her flight from Europe in 1941 he shows how personal experiences and her responses to them oriented her thinking."
- ISBN10 0262024063
- ISBN13 9780262024068
- Publish Date 31 December 1996 (first published 11 July 1996)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Edition Lst Mit Press ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 233
- Language English