The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt  

Hannah Arendt was once approached by her student Elisabeth Young-Bruehl with a translation Young-Bruehl had done of a phrase by Aristotle. After due consideration of its Latin and German renderings, Arendt remarked, “Ja, well, my dear, it’s not exactly right, …



The Politics of the Powerless  

“The working men have no country,” reads a famous passage in The Communist Manifesto. “We cannot take from them what they have not got.” Marx and Engels add that with its penetration of world markets, the bourgeoisie was universalizing capitalist …