Hannah: 1490 books
Thinking Without a Banister
Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great...
by Hannah Crawforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically astute writers...
Totalitarianism
Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1968
The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.
In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state...
Crises of the Republic
Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 1972
Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. “Lying in Politics”...
by Kristin Hannah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
De la autora de El Ruiseñor, El baile de las luciérnagas es la emotiva novela que querrás que lea tu mejor amiga.
Dos amigas.
Un juramento.
Y toda una vida por delante.
En el caluroso verano de 1974, Kate Mularkey ha decido aceptar su papel de cero a la izquierda en la vida social...
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of...
by Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the...
Suburban Safari
A Year on the Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. Suburban Safari is...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
by Hannah Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
Eichmann in Jeruzalem
de banaliteit van het kwaad
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In 1960 werd de voormalige nazileider Adolf Eichmann in Argentinië, waar hij sinds het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog een anoniem bestaan had geleid, gekidnapt en naar Israël gesmokkeld. Daar stond hij in 1961 terecht voor ‘misdaden tegen de menselijkheid’. In opdracht van het tijdschrift...
From a Nation Torn
Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated...
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality...