On Violence (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hannah ArendtRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1 MbOverview: ‘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 […]
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction by Dana VillaRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 271 MBOverview: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz philosophy in Germany, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger. Arendt escaped […]
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction by Dana VillaRequirements: .PDF reader, 1.12 MBOverview: Reveals the continuing relevance of Hannah Arendt’s concepts of political action, public freedom, and the public realm Provides new insights into Arendt’s writings, particularly what is meant by ‘the banality of evil’ Analyses Arendt’s major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, The […]
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.96MBOverview: Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from […]
The Human Condition (Second Edition) by Hannah ArendtRequirements: .MP3 reader, 864.6 MBOverview: The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many […]
