A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from
The Origins of Totalitarianism
and
Eichmann in Jerusalem
She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day—Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the time: totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.
The Portable Hannah Arendt
offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature:
,
The Human Condition
, and
. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.