Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind

The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century

Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents-from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950-Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Traci...