ARGONAUT BOOKS

How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times.Washington Post (on The Origins of Totalitarianism)More than any thinker it was Hannah Arendt who identified how those movements of ideas, racial theories, people and methods take place, showing how they fused with other forces - most notably European antisemitism - to shape and ultimately disfigure the twentieth century.Enormously erudite, always imaginative, original and full of insights.Sunday TimesPerhaps Arendt's most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to cons...Read More