Hannah Arendt - For Love of the World

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Young-Bruehl , who now practices as a psychoanalyst in New York City, is on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Klappentext This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition: "Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best."--Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review "A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole."--Jim Miller, Newsweek "Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt."--Mark Feeney, Boston Globe "An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness."--Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Cover drawing by David Schorr

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Young-Bruehl Elisabeth
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780300105889
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10588-9
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -