Books by Hannah Arendt

Portrait of Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was a political theorist whose penetrating analyses of power, authority, and totalitarianism reshaped twentieth‑century thought. Born in Germany and later exiled to the United States, she combined philosophical depth with a journalist's eye for the moral and civic challenges of her time. Her writing is marked by clarity, independence of mind, and a concern for the responsibilities of individuals within political communities.

From her landmark study of totalitarian regimes to her reflections on the nature of evil and the conditions of human freedom, Arendt's works remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand modern politics and moral life. Her thought continues to inspire debate, offering readers both intellectual rigour and a humane perspective on the possibilities of collective action and personal conscience.

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  • The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Penguin Books Ltd The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Book Synopsis'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times 'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' GuardianTrade ReviewA kind of nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four * The New York Times *How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and Origins raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead * Washington Post *Perhaps Arendt's most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to consider oneself political as part of the human condition. What are your political acts, and what politics do they serve? -- Zoe Williams * Guardian *Her masterpiece ... Arendt's inquiry into the elements of totalitarian domination teaches us we must never let go of the fear of totalitarian government * Los Angeles Review of Books *A vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian rule -- Jeffrey C. Isaac * The Washington Post *Remarkable for us, no doubt, is Arendt's conviction that only philosophy could have saved those millions of lives -- Judith Butler * Guardian *Her greatest work is this 1951 classic ... More than any thinker it was Hannah Arendt who identified how those movements of ideas, racial theories, people and methods take place, showing how they fused with other forces - most notably European antisemitism - to shape and ultimately disfigure the twentieth century -- David Olusoga * Guardian *

    £12.28

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    Penguin Books Ltd Eichmann in Jerusalem

    20 in stock

    Book Synopsis''Brilliant and disturbing'' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on ''the banality of evil'', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt''s stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt''s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.''Deals with the greatest problem of our time ... the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system'' Bruno BettelheimTrade ReviewA touchstone in the 20th century's thinking about morality and politics * The New York Times *Quite astonishing . . . her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing -- Judith ButlerDeals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system * The New Republic *

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    £10.44

  • On Violence

    Penguin Books Ltd On Violence

    Book SynopsisFrom Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics''Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it''Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America exploding into student protest, Hannah Arendt''s seminal work dissects violence in the twentieth century: its nature and causes, its relationship with politics and war, its role in the modern age. Arendt warns against the glamorization of violence by revolutionary causes, and argues that true, lasting power can never grow ''out of the barrel of a gun''.''Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times'' The NationWTrade ReviewIncisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times * The Nation *

    £7.99

  • The Freedom to Be Free

    Penguin Books Ltd The Freedom to Be Free

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    Book Synopsis''People can only be free in relation to one another.''Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

    15 in stock

    £7.59

  • Faber & Faber On Revolution

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    £10.44

  • The Human Condition

    The University of Chicago Press The Human Condition

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisArendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable.

    7 in stock

    £19.95

  • The Portable Hannah Arendt Penquin Classics

    Penguin Books Ltd The Portable Hannah Arendt Penquin Classics

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    Book SynopsisA 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 Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume incluTable of ContentsThe Portable Hannah ArendtEditor's IntroductionPrincipal DatesBibliographical NotesAcknowledgmentsI. Overview: What Remains?What Remains? The Language Remains: A Conversation with Günter GausII. Stateless PersonsThat "Infinitely Complex Red-tape Exixtence"From a Letter to Karl JaspersThe Perplexities of the RIghts of ManThe Jewish Army-The Beginning of a Jewish Politics?Jewess and Shlemihl (1771-1795)Writing Rahel Varnhagen. From a Letter to Karl JaspersIII. TotalitarianismThe Jews and SocietyExpansionTotal DominationOrganized Guilt and Universal ResponsibilityA Reply to Eric VoegelinIV. The Vita ActivaLabor, Work, ActionThe Public and the Private RealmReflections on Little RockThe Social QuestionThe Concept of History: Ancient and ModernV. Banality and Conscience: The Eichmann Trial and its ImplicationsFrom Eichmann in JerusalemAn Expert on the Jewish QuestionThe Final Solution: KillingThe Wannasee Conference, or Pontious PilateExecusionEpiloguePostscriptHoles of Oblivion: The Eichmann Trial and Totalitarianism. From a Letter to Mary McCarthyA Daughter of Out PeopleA Response to Gershom ScholemFrom The Life of the Mind (volume 1)The Answer of SocratesThe Two-in-OneVI. RevolutionRosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)What Is Freedom?What Is Authority?The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost TreasureVII. Of Truth and TrapsHeidegger the FoxTruth and PoliticsPermissions

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    £15.29

  • On Lying And Politics: A Library of America

    The Library of America On Lying And Politics: A Library of America

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    £10.79

  • On Civil Disobedience

    Penguin Random House Group On Civil Disobedience

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  • What Remains

    WW Norton & Co What Remains

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  • Eichmann and the Holocaust

    Penguin Books Ltd Eichmann and the Holocaust

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    Book SynopsisThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime''s moral blindness and one man''s insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was ''only following orders''.

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  • Love and Saint Augustine

    The University of Chicago Press Love and Saint Augustine

    Book SynopsisThis is a revised and corrected English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts and other documents. It demonstrates how her early work on Augustine provides the key to her later critique of modernity.

    £17.10

  • Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman

    The New York Review of Books, Inc Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman

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    Book SynopsisA biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century''s most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt.Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt’s first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, passionate woman, and an important figure in German romanticism. Rahel Varnhagen also bore the burdens of being an unusual woman in a man’s world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.She was, Arendt writes, “neither beautiful nor attractive . . . and possessed no talents with which to employ her extraordinary intelligence and passionate originality.” Arendt sets out to tell the story of Rahel’s life as Rahel might have told it and, in doing so, to reveal the way in which assimilation defined one person’s destiny. On her deathbed Rahel is reported to have said, “The thing which all my life seemed to me the greatest shame, which was the misery and misfortune of my life—having been born a Jewess—this I should on no account now wish to have missed.” Only because she had remained both a Jew and a pariah, Arendt observes, “did she find a place in the history of European humanity.”

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    £15.29

  • Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy

    The University of Chicago Press Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy

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    £19.00

  • On Violence

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Violence

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    Book SynopsisPolitical theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt''s On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the twenty-first century. In this classic and still all too resonant work, Hannah Arendt puts her theories about violence into historical perspective, examining the relationships between war and politics, violence and power. Questioning the nature of violent behavior, she reveals the causes of its many manifestations, and ulitmately argues against Mao Zedong''s dictum power grows out of the barrel of a gun, proposing instead that power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent.“Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times.”—The Nation

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Ich selbst auch ich tanze

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    7 in stock

    £18.70

  • On Revolution Penguin Classics

    Penguin Publishing Group On Revolution Penguin Classics

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism   Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.

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    £13.26

  • Between Past and Future

    Penguin Putnam Inc Between Past and Future

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    Book SynopsisFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, ?a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day? (Harper?s Magazine) Hannah Arendt?s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.

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    £16.15

  • Responsibility and Judgment

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Responsibility and Judgment

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    £15.29

  • Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition LOA 389

    10 in stock

    £33.75

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Kein Mensch hat das Recht zu gehorchen

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    15 in stock

    £8.76

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Mensch und Politik

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    7 in stock

    £9.12

  • Die Freiheit frei zu sein

    Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. Die Freiheit frei zu sein

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    £10.40

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Über Palästina

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    £19.80

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Macht Und Gewalt

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    3 in stock

    £11.44

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vomm Leben DES Geistes Das Denken Das Wollen

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    3 in stock

    £14.95

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Wie ich einmal ohne Dich leben soll mag ich mir

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    7 in stock

    £16.20

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Denken ohne Geländer

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    7 in stock

    £13.30

  • Piper Verlag GmbH ber das Bse Eine Vorlesung zu Fragen der Ethik

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Das Urteilen

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    1 in stock

    £11.40

  • Piper Verlag GmbH In der Gegenwart bungen zum politischen Denken II

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Hannah Arendt Ihr Denken vernderte die Welt

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Eichmann war von emprender Dummheit Gesprche und

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Briefe 1936 1968 mit einer Einfhrung von Lotte

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Wahrheit gibt es nur zu zweien

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    3 in stock

    £15.20

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Macht und Gewalt

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    £13.30

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben

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    £14.40

  • Piper Verlag GmbH ber die Revolution

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Im Vertrauen Briefwechsel 1949 1975

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin Versuch einer

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Rahel Varnhagen

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Wir Juden

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vorträge und Aufsätze 19301938

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  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vorträge und Aufsätze 19411950

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    £18.00

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vorträge und Aufsätze 19511960

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    £16.20

  • Piper Verlag GmbH Vorträge und Aufsätze 19611976

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    £16.20

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die verborgene Tradition Acht Essays

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £13.30

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