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Why X Matters
Yale University Press
October 2006
On Sale: October 14, 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0300120443
EAN: 9780300120448
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography | Non-Fiction
Upon publication of her “field manual,” The Origins of
Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt
immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst.
Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books
and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the
way America and Europe addressed the central questions and
dilemmas of World War II. In this concise book, Elisabeth
Young-Bruehl introduces her mentor’s work to
twenty-first-century readers. Arendt’s ideas, as much today
as in her own lifetime, illuminate those issues that perplex
us, such as totalitarianism, terrorism, globalization, war,
and “radical evil.”
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who was
Arendt’s doctoral student in the early 1970s and who wrote
the definitive biography of her mentor in 1982, now revisits
Arendt’s major works and seminal ideas. Young-Bruehl
considers what Arendt’s analysis of the totalitarianism of
Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union can teach us
about our own times, and how her revolutionary understanding
of political action is connected to forgiveness and making
promises for the future. The author also discusses The
Life of the Mind, Arendt’s unfinished meditation on how
to think about thinking. Placed in the context of today’s
political landscape, Arendt’s ideas take on a new immediacy
and importance. They require our attention, Young-Bruehl
shows, and continue to bring fresh truths to light.
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