Close Readings: LA Review of Books on Samantha Rose Hill’s Biography of Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt Center Senior Fellow Samantha Rose Hill
Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books) by Samantha Rose Hill, a senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, is the latest in the “Critical Lives” series, which neatly (usually in under 250 pages) presents the life and work of leading cultural figures of the modern period. “Hill quickly cuts to the core of Arendt’s principal talent: the formulation of trenchant categories and definitions that, for all their certitude, take from the past only what is necessary, looking otherwise to the present and future.”
Post Date: 08-10-2021
Post Date: 08-10-2021