num_pages: 725
description: From one of the most significant political theorists of the twentieth centurya collection of essays lectures speeches reviews and interviews published in the last twenty years of her life but never until now compiled in book form.Beginning in 1951 with the publication of Origins of Totalitarianism until her death in 1975 Hannah Arendt wrote all of her seminal works including The Human Condition Eichmann in Jerusalem On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. At the same time she was contributing essays reviews and editorials to numerous publications and participating in recorded conversations interviews and public discussions. Now for the first time these various shorter textsall of them published within her lifetimeare gathered together in a single volume that makes clear the remarkable range of her preoccupations and passions. EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEROME KOHN 
language: English
title: Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
publisher: Schocken Books