{"product_id":"thinking-without-a-banister","title":"Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975","description":"Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers—Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger—throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner rather than an answerer, and she wrote what she thought, principally to encourage others to think for themselves. Fearless of the consequences of thinking, Arendt found courage woven in each and every strand of human freedom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1951 she published \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1958 \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1961 \u003ci\u003eBetween Past and Future,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963 \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968 \u003ci\u003eMen in Dark Times,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970 \u003ci\u003eOn Violence,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1972 \u003ci\u003eCrises of the Republic,\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1978, posthumously, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Mind.\u003c\/i\u003e Starting at the turn of the twenty-first century, Schocken Books has published a series of collections of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected writings, of which \u003ci\u003eThinking Without a Banister\u003c\/i\u003e is the fifth volume. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe title refers to Arendt’s description of her experience of thinking, an activity she indulged without any of the traditional religious, moral, political, or philosophic pillars of support. The book’s contents are varied: the essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind as well as her character, acquainting the reader with the person Arendt was, and who has hardly yet been appreciated or understood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46217459597522,"sku":"9780805211658","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46217459630290,"sku":"9780805242157","price":54.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46217459663058,"sku":"8de40be3-b61b-3cbf-a624-331a9a5c2aff","price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d8026825-cbb1-4cda-8e2c-99acf62699d8.jpg?v=1763074627","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/thinking-without-a-banister","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}