Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Subtitle: German Émigrés and American Political Thought after World War II (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Peter Graf Kielmansegg (Editor); Horst Mewes (Editor); Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521599368
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political ideologies; Modern - 20th Century; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Germany; History & Theory - General; Arendt - Hannah - 1906-1975; History / Germany; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-Modern - 20th Century; Political Science-History & Theory - General
First sentence: On Revolution is Hannah Arendt's major contribution to political theory, and although the book's potential as a source of a theory of democracy is not immediately apparent, it is not necessary to dig very far to unearth the treasures this work contains.