LEADER 03459nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910451663103321 005 20191030193401.0 010 $a1-281-72304-5 010 $a9786611723040 010 $a0-300-13456-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300134568 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473643 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049800 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248194 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293479 035 $a(PQKB)10398554 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420359 035 $a(DE-B1597)485288 035 $a(OCoLC)952733911 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300134568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420359 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210242 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172304 035 $a(OCoLC)923592562 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473643 100 $a20060602d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy Arendt matters$b[electronic resource] /$fElisabeth Young-Bruehl 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aWhy X matters 300 $aSeries from jacket. 311 $a0-300-12044-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index. 320 $a"Works by Hannah Arendt": p. [219]-220. 327 $aThe origins of totalitarianism and the twenty-first century -- The human condition and actions that matter -- Thinking about The life of the mind. 330 $aUpon publication of her "field manual," The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed the central questions and dilemmas of World War II. In this concise book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl introduces her mentor's work to twenty-first-century readers. Arendt's ideas, as much today as in her own lifetime, illuminate those issues that perplex us, such as totalitarianism, terrorism, globalization, war, and "radical evil. "Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who was Arendt's doctoral student in the early 1970's and who wrote the definitive biography of her mentor in 1982, now revisits Arendt's major works and seminal ideas. Young-Bruehl considers what Arendt's analysis of the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union can teach us about our own times, and how her revolutionary understanding of political action is connected to forgiveness and making promises for the future. The author also discusses The Life of the Mind, Arendt's unfinished meditation on how to think about thinking. Placed in the context of today's political landscape, Arendt's ideas take on a new immediacy and importance. They require our attention, Young-Bruehl shows, and continue to bring fresh truths to light. 410 0$aWhy X matters. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aTotalitarianism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aTotalitarianism. 676 $a320.5092 700 $aYoung-Bruehl$b Elisabeth$0188351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451663103321 996 $aWhy Arendt matters$923666 997 $aUNINA