Ann Heberlein

On Love and Tyranny

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A timely, dramatic biography that explores how Hannah Arendt's personal experience shaped her indispensable work on totalitarianism, refugees and the nature of love and evil
Hannah Arendt lived through the darkest of times; she made it her life's work to illuminate them. Interrogated in Hitler's Germany and held at an internment camp in occupied France, she bore direct witness to some of the most catastrophic events of 20th-century history. In her indispensable writings, Arendt approached with undaunted intellect the intractable human problems she observed: exile, totalitarianism, the nature of responsibility and the moral problem of evil.
In this immersive new biography, Ann Heberlein tracks the development of Arendt's work in relation to her dramatic life. Ranging over Arendt's formative affair with Nazi sympathiser Martin Heidegger and her complex love for her husband Heinrich Blücher, her repeated flights from fascist authorities and her journey from statelessness to American citizenship, On Love and Tyranny brings into sharp focus a life and philosophy formed by personal and political turbulence.
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227 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
Publisher
Pushkin Press
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  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    “Amo means volo, ut sis … I love you — I want you to be what you are,” Martin wrote to Hannah. The quote, attributed to Saint Augustine, is an invocation, as though he is creating her through his love.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    she was openly skeptical toward the idea of universal human rights
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Eighteen long years after Hannah escaped Germany, she finally became an American citizen.

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