Review of Dierdre Lauren Mahony

Abstract

[Excerpt] Deirdre L. Mahony’s book focuses on the ethical thinking of Hannah Arendt, the famous (but also infamous) philosopher, political theorist, historian, Zionist thinker, correspondent of Karl Jasper, and Martin Heidegger’s (perhaps naïve) disciple. Arendt was an émigré to the United States, fleeing Nazi Germany. In the US, she wrote and taught at many first-rate universities, never quite finding a new home despite her celebrity.