On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication - Hannah Arendt

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HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism , The Human Condition , Eichmann in Jerusalem , On Revolution , and the posthumously published The Life of the Mind . Her commentaries on modern American and European politics and on the history of political thought were collected in Essays in Understanding , Thinking Without a Banister , and Responsibility and Judgment . DAVID BROMWICH is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Intellectual Career of Edmund Burke and American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us . His articles on contemporary politics have appeared in Dissent , The Nation , HuffPost , The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books .