Hannah Arendt

For Love of the World

Young-Bruehl Elisabeth

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement.

About the Author

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a practising psychoanalyst. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy under Hannah Arendt's supervision at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

Reviews

"Both a personal and an intellectual biography... It represents biography at its best" – Peter Berger, The New York Times Book Review

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