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Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin : Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers--and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish migr intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented "everything that I detest most," while Arendt met Berlin's hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today. Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta traces the Arendt-Berlin conflict, from their first meeting in wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the controversy ove
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kei Hiruta
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691226132
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Philosophy
