The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth: Ken Krimstein: Bloomsbury Publishing

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

A Tyranny of Truth

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

A Tyranny of Truth

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Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir
Best Graphic Novels of the Year-Forbes
Jewish Book Award Finalist
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize

For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century.

One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant.

She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man - the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger - for what she called "love of the world."

Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.

Product details

Published	Sep 25 2018
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	240
ISBN	9781635571882
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Illustrations	2-color throughout
Dimensions	Not specified
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Gorgeous . . . despite the often dark subject matter, it's packed with wit . . . it's a fun and, especially in a final illustration that encapsulates Arendt's hopes for a better world, inspiring work.

Minneapolis Star Tribune
[The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt] depicts Arendt in a way no other book has--bringing her passion and physicality to life using the medium of comics to distill Arendt's dense writings to their essence and to make us feel the passion of her thinking . . . intimate, immediate and real.

The Forward
Krimstein brings brilliant political theorist Arendt to life in his artful and compelling biographical collage.

5 Hot Books, The National Book Review
The astounding life of a 20th-century original as told by a skillful cartoonist frolicking in long form . . . A compelling performance with great pacing that makes abstruse political theory both intelligible and memorable.

Kirkus (Starred Review)
As Krimstein deftly weaves Arendt's life and thought, he captures the excitement of the philosophical enterprise in both word and image. . . Both smart and entertaining; highly recommended and not just for graphic novels readers.

Starred Review, Library Journal
A graphic novel that plays with memory and thought . . . What's certainly clear is how deeply the author respects and understands his subject, beautifully elucidating key arguments in [Arendt's] work as well as defending her robust reputation as a thinker during her lifetime . . . A wonderful honoring of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

Starred Review, Shelf Awareness