Wonderful commentary! I first met Hannah through Men in Dark Times in a European Political Theory course at UT Austin in the very early 1970s. I was hooked and have proceeded to read pretty much everything over the years.
I still have my original paperback. Marked up! Of course I have a newer copy as well! “Karl Jaspers Citizen of the World” and “Rosa Luxemburg” and the Walter Benjamin essay. These three led me to further texts of theirs, and also to the volume of Arendt and Jaspers’ Letters.
Thanks for the insights & the reminder that even as she was a powerful thinker and public persona, she was a unique person as well.
Wonderful commentary! I first met Hannah through Men in Dark Times in a European Political Theory course at UT Austin in the very early 1970s. I was hooked and have proceeded to read pretty much everything over the years.
Oh, what a wonderful book to begin with! Do you have a favorite essay in it?
I still have my original paperback. Marked up! Of course I have a newer copy as well! “Karl Jaspers Citizen of the World” and “Rosa Luxemburg” and the Walter Benjamin essay. These three led me to further texts of theirs, and also to the volume of Arendt and Jaspers’ Letters.