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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920.02
EAN: 9780156588904
ISBN: 0156588900
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: March 25, 1970
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
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Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.
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In the Arendt-Heidegger correspondence letter 89 credits Heidegger with being the whole inspiration of her "The Human Condition".
The really troubling question is how she justified excluding "Martin" from this book, "Men in Dark Times", when there are two chapters on Jaspers.
My opinion - my interpretation - is that in this book, the opening of the prize speech is in fact veiled justification of Heidegger.
Read in conjunction with the Arendt account of Heidegger's ... Read More
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These portraits of Karl Jaspers, Waldemar Gurian, Randall Jarrell, Walter Benjamin,Isak Dinesen,Bertolhdt Brecht, Pope John XXIII are remarkable for their human insight, their narrative power and their philosophical understanding. Arendt makes of each portrait a life- story, often a most moving story, and a presentation and critical assessment of the figure 's life- work. In some cases she had a central part in introducing to an English reading audience seminal figures ( Walter Benjamin and Hermann Broch ... Read More
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Men in Dark Times is a collection of biographical essays Arendt wrote over a period of 15 years (1955-1968), all of which were published elsewhere, and collected here under this title. She has choosen to collct her portraits of cultural and political figures who worked and were caught up in world affairs in the first half of the twentieth-century, figures such as Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Jaspers, Isak Dinesen, Walter Benjamin, and Bertolt Brecht. The oppening essay, "On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts about ... Read More
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