(H/B) THINKING WITHOUT A BANISTER

Παρουσίαση

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 philosophers-Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger-throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner rather than an answerer, and she wrote what she thought, principally to encourage others to think for themselves. Fearless of the consequences of thinking, Arendt found courage woven in each and every strand of human freedom.
In 1951 she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1958 The Human Condition, in 1961 Between Past and Future, in 1963 On Revolution and Eichmann in Jerusalem, in 1968 Men in Dark Times, in 1970 On Violence, in 1972 Crises of the Republic, and in 1978, posthumously, The Life of the Mind. Starting at the turn of the twenty-first century, Schocken Books has published a series of collections of Arendt's unpublished and uncollected writings, of which Thinking Without a Banister is the fifth volume.
The title refers to Arendt's description of her experience of thinking, an activity she indulged without any of the traditional religious, moral, political, or philosophic pillars of support. The book's contents are varied: the essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind as well as her character, acquainting the reader with the person Arendt was, and who has hardly yet been appreciated or understood. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction by Jerome Kohn
Acknowledgments
Publication History
Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought
The Broken Thread of Tradition
The Modern Challenge to Tradition
The Great Tradition
Law and Power
Ruling and Being Ruled
Authority in the Twentieth Century
Letter to Robert M. Hutchins
The Hungarian Revolution and Totalitarian Imperialism
Totalitarianism
Culture and Politics
Challenges to Traditional Ethics: A Response to Michael Polanyi
Reflections on the 1960 National Conventions: Kennedy vs. Nixon
Action and the "Pursuit of Happiness"
Freedom and Politics, a Lecture
The Cold War and the West
Nation-State and Democracy
Kennedy and After
Nathalie Sarraute
"As If Speaking to a Brick Wall": A Conversation with Joachim Fest
Labor, Work, Action
Politics and Crime: An Exchange of Letters
Introduction to The Warriors by J. Glenn Gray
On the Human Condition
The Crisis Character of Modern Society
Revolution and Freedom, a Lecture
Is America by Nature a Violent Society?
The Possessed
"The Freedom to Be Free": The Conditions and Meaning of Revolution
Imagination
He's All Dwight
Emerson-Thoreau Medal Address
The Archimedean Point
Heidegger at Eighty
For Martin Heidegger
War Crimes and the American Conscience
Letter to the Editor of The New York Review of Books
Values in Contemporary Society
Hannah Arendt on Hannah Arendt
Remarks
Address to the Advisory Council on Philosophy at Princeton University
Interview with Roger Errera
Public Rights and Private Interests: A Response to Charles Frankel
Preliminary Remarks About the Life of the Mind
Transition
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973
Index