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Hannah Arendt, one of the very most gifted and provocative voices of her time, was a polarizing ethnic theorist - extolled by her peers as a visionary and denounced by others as a fraudulence. Created in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and became best known for her critique of the world's respond to the evils of World Battle II. A female of several contradictions, Arendt discovered to create in British only at age 36, yet her first e book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly transformed the way generations of Us citizens and Europeans looked at fascism and genocide. Her most famous - and most divisive - work, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, brought fierce controversy that continues even today, exacerbated by the posthumous finding that she had been the lover of the great intimate philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. On this fast-paced, detailed biography, Anne Heller monitors the foundation of Arendt's noticeable contradictions and her biggest achievements, from a tumultuous child years to her entrance as what she called a "conscious pariah" - one of those few people in whenever and place who don't "lose self confidence in ourselves if contemporary society will not approve us" and can not "pay any price" to gain acceptance.
