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This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation.

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Introduction 1. Love and Saint Augustine: The Abstracted Neighbor 2. Rahel Varnhagen: The Strangeness of Me 3. The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Surfeit of Superfluousness 4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Crisis of Conscience 5. On Revolution: The Fragility of Rights 6. Arendt´s Public Sphere: Locating a Political Existential 7. The Encumbrance of History

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Marilyn LaFay received her PhD in Political Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick in 2013.

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