Description: Margaret Canovan argues in this book that much of the published work on Arendt has been flawed by serious misunderstandings, arising from a failure to see her work in its proper context. The author shows how such misunderstanding was possible, and offers a fundamental reinterpretation, drawing on Arendt's unpublished as well as her published work, which sheds new light on most areas of her thought.
Review Quotes: "Here at last is a clear and accessible, appreciative but not uncritical, account of the whole range of Hannah Arendt's thinking. For once the wood is not lost in the trees. Her status as one of the major thinkers of this century emerges beyond doubt." Bernard Crick