Between Past and Future - (Penguin Classics) Annotated by Hannah Arendt (Paperback)

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About the Book Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Book Synopsis From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism , "a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day" ( Harper's Magazine ) Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an imp…