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  • Hannah Arendt

  • A Life in Dark Times
  • By: Anne C. Heller
  • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
  • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Hannah Arendt

By: Anne C. Heller
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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Publisher's summary

The acclaimed biographer presents “a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher” and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews).

Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal.

Arendt’s first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, singlehandedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger.

In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a “conscious pariah”—one of those rare people who don’t “lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us” and will not “pay any price” to gain the acceptance of others.

©2015 Anne C. Heller (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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Great book about a great woman

Interesting and well written, kept my attention through every second. If anything I felt it was too short. Was disappointed when it finished.

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Passionately narrated, beautifully written

This is a good book, not heavy, engaging about an exceptional thinker. It’s inspiring to listen about the story of a thinker whose heart was as fresh as young children and it showed in her ideas

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