Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times is a concise biography of the political philosopher by Anne C. Heller. Heller follows Arendt from her youth in Germany and her affair with Martin Heidegger to her escape from the Nazis and new life in New York. She covers the writing of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, the controversy over Eichmann in Jerusalem and the friendships that shaped her, showing a thinker whose life was as dramatic as her ideas.
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- David Heinemeier Hansson: “Highly recommend Heller's biography. Arendt is not only a spectacular writer and thinker, she's also a deeply fascinating human.”