Description
Hannah Arendt (1906 -1975) was one of the seminal yet controversial thinkers of the 20th century. Her major philosophical works: The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Life of the Mind, analyze the most crucial events of her time, which affected our categories of moral and political thinking. Her rather negative articulation of modernity covers topics such as the eclipse of tradition, religion, and authority, as well as the rise of the private world of introspection and isolation. Her central concern is the question of how to recover space for political freedom and action, which will promote and belong to a possible human flourishing. Through her hermeneutic reading of the past centuries, she tries to redeem from the past its lots and forgotten treasure that might still be of significance in our present search for meaning, identity, and value. The past may “open up to us with unexpected freshness and tell us things no one has yet had ears to hear.” Arendt considers