ARGONAUT BOOKS

The violent unease of today's world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning - thinking - was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and pl...Read More