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Book SynopsisA timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political-theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century''s foremost opponent of totalitarianism and a prophet against conformity (The Nation).‘We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.’ --Crises of the RepublicThe violent unease of today’s world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil: she had lived through them all.
Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning—thinkin
