On Love and Tyranny
«Brings [Arendt] vividly to life»
New European
Hannah Arendt lived through the darkest of times, yet she made it her life's work to illuminate them. Interrogated in Hitler's Germany and held at an internment camp in occupied France, she bore direct witness to some of the most catastrophic events of 20th-century history. Les mer
In this immersive new biography, Ann Heberlein shows that these issues were not just theoretical for Arendt - they were also personal. On Love and Tyranny ranges over her dramatic life, from her formative affair with Nazi sympathiser Martin Heidegger to her complex love for her husband Heinrich Blücher, tracking her repeated flights from fascist authorities and eventual journey from statelessness to American citizenship. What emerges is a complex, riveting portrait of an essential thinker, who turned personal and political tumult into work of enduring relevance.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pushkin Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781782276111
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Brings [Arendt] vividly to life»
New European
«As exciting and gripping as a novel... The story of Hannah Arendt is captivating and her ideas are more relevant now than ever»
Världen Idag
«A thoroughly gripping, enthralling and multifaceted read»
Smedjan
«Brilliantly reveals Arendt's thinking . . . effortlessly readable. . . astonishing»
Winnipeg Free Press
«Heberlein's book, superbly translated by Alice Menzies, combines rigorous biographical research with a novelistic story of Arendt's passion... The good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful are thoroughly explored in Heberlein's multi-layered and compelling book»
St. Louis Jewish Light