Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt Bibliography

On this page you will find an extensive, though not exhaustive, bibliography by and about Hannah Arendt, compiled by Samantha Rose Hill.

To expect truth from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, ed. Mary McCarthy (New York, 1981), p. 61.

Hannah Arendt’s Works in English

  • Love and Saint Augustine.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (English translation of Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin, 1929)
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951. (British title: The Burden of Our Time. London: Secker and Warburg, 1951)
  • The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958; (Doubleday Anchor, 1959)
  • Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. (British title: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess. London: East and West Library, 1958)
  • Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought. New York: Viking Press, 1961.  Revised edition, including two additional essays, 1968
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Revised and enlarged edition, 1965
  • On Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Revised second edition, 1965
  • Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968
  • On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970
  • Crises of the Republic. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
  • The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age. Edited and with an Introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978
  • The Life of the Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
  • Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982

Hannah Arendt’s Works in German

  • Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Berlin: J. Springer, 1929
  • Sechs Essays. Heidelberg: L. Schneider, 1943. (Reprinted in Die Verborgene Tradition, 1976)
  • Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft. Frankfurt: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1962
  • Fragwürdige Traditionsbestände im Politischen Denken der Gegenwart. Frankfurt: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1957
  • Vita activa oder von tätigen Leben, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1960;  Munich: Piper, 1967
  • Rahel Varnhagen: Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin aus der Romantik. Munich: Piper, 1959 and Ullstein Verlag, 1975. (German edition of Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman)
  • Die Ungarische Revolution und der totalitäre Imperialismus. Munich: Piper, 1958
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen. Munich: Piper, 1964
  • Über die Revolution. Munich: Piper, 1963
  • Macht und Gewalt. Munich: Piper, 1975
  • Wahrheit und Lüge in der Politik: Zwei Essays. Munich: Piper, 1972 
  • Die Verborgene Tradition: Acht Essays. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1976
  • Ich selbst, auch ich tanze: Die Gedichte. Munich: Piper, 2015

English volumes edited by Hannah Arendt

  • Edition of Bernard Lazare, Job's Dungheap. New York: Schocken Books, 1948.
  • Edition of Karl Jaspers, The Great Philosophers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1962 and 1966 (volumes 1 and 2).
  • Edition of Walter Benjamin, Illuminations. Translated by Harry Zohn. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. (Introduction to this volume collected in Men in Dark Times.)  

German volumes edited by Hannah Arendt

  • Edition of Hermann Broch, Dichten und Erkennen, Essays, two volumes of Broch's Gesammelte Werke. Zurich: Rheinverlag, 1955 (now Frankfurt: Suhrkamp). (Arendt's introduction,  translated by Richard and Clara Winson, appeared in Men in Dark Times.)
  • Karl Jaspers: Reden Zur Verleihung des Friedenpreises des Deutschen Buchhandels. Munich: Piper, 1958. (Reprinted in Men in Dark Times.)
  • Walter Benjamin-Bertolt Brecht: Zwei Essays. Munich: Piper, 1971 (Both essays included in Men in Dark Times.)

Collected Volumes of Essays, Interviews, Books Reviews, Articles in English

  • Essays in Understanding: 1930-1954. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
  • Responsibility and Judgment. New York: Schocken Books, 2003.
  • The Promise of Politics. New York: Schocken Books, 2005.
  • The Jewish Writings. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
  • Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1935-1975. New York: Schocken Books, 2018.
  • Denktagebuch: 1950-1973. Munich: Piper, 2002.

Hannah Arendt’s correspondence published in English

  • Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence 1926-1969. New York: Harvest Books, 1993.
  • Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975. New York: Harvest Books, 1996.
  • Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968. New York: Harcourt, 2000.
  • Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger Letters: 1925-1975. New York: Harcourt, 2003.
  • The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Hannah Arendt’s correspondence published in German

  • Schreib doch mal ,hard facts' uber dich. Briefe Gunther Anders und Hannah Arendt 1939-1975. Munich: Piper, 2018.
  • Wie ich einmal ohne Dich leben soll, mag ich mir nicht vorstellen Hannah Arendt Briefwechsel mit den Freundinnen Charlotte Beradt, Rose Feitelson, Hilde Fränkel, Anne Weil und Helen Wolff. Munich: Piper, 2017.
  • Hannah Arendt, Hermann Broch: Briefwechsel 1946 bis 1951. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1996.
  • Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2002.

Selected books about Hannah Arendt 

  • Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Why Arendt Matters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt. London: Reaktion Books, 2021.
  • Dana Villa, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Dana Villa, The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Hannah Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Social. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  • Jerome Kohn and Larry Mary, Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
  • George Kateb, Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1984.
  • Jeffrey Isaac, Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Bonnie Honig, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
  • Lisa Disch, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Mary Dietz, Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Margret Canovan, The Political thought of Hannah Arendt. London: J.M. Dent, 1974.
  • Richard Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Questions. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996.
  • Richard Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
  • Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
  • Seyla Benhabib, Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2010.
  • Kathyrn T. Gines, Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

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