Hannah Arendt
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Where Hannah Arendt Began March 04, 2025
Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library of Congress are two typed and handbound books of verse—short, expressive, and written by Arendt herself. Few know that Arendt, the German Jewish political philosopher responsible for the dense pr...
For the Love of the Word January 15, 2025
Hannah Arendt first fled the Nazis in 1933. It was a harrowing escape: she had just been released from the Gestapo prison in Berlin after eight days of interrogation for collecting evidence of German anti-Semitism from the stacks of the Prussian Stat...
On Hannah Arendt's 'What Remains' December 09, 2024
For much of her life, the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, best known today for The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and her reporting and reflections on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, wrote poetry that it seems she never thought to publish. ...
Hannah and Her Resisters October 09, 2024
One of the greatest beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s 2016 election was Hannah Arendt—or at least, her literary estate. In the first year of Trump’s presidency, sales of Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism soared by 1,000 percent. New editions of ...
Hannah Arendt, Poet October 01, 2024
For a while there in the late nineties, it seemed to me like every other book of poetry that I flipped open in the bookstore was prefaced by an austere epigraph from the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Wittgen...
