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Great, wonderful book. Full of snippets of Arendt‘s philosophy and theory.

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My last book was a s l o w read. Hoping this one is a quickie.

“To be alive and think are the same thing(228)”.
This graphic novel was in our HS library.I think it is a reliable,researched,brief readable summary of Arendt‘s life & worksThe graphics are fun,facial expressions & body language authentic,Exaggerations of faces,bodies add a playful element.The language is modern- might that be due to the author‘s intended audience? Examples:Lines are “The Game is AFoot 9.1.1939 (100)”The Fleet Street Pundts(101).”

#adventureinphilosophy #HannahArednt
“I start living three lives at the same time”(88).

The birth of Totalitarianism (165). #adventuresinphilosophy #HannahArendt

Germans are rounded up in France & transported to up in France the Velodrome D‘Hiver. After three days living there listening to “ uselessblather” & sleeping its lice filled straw mattresses, Arendt proclaims she finds “one intelligent, truth, telling person to talk to, to argue with sensibly, to dialogue with… Myself.”107).

Hannah has made her first escape from Germany to Paris. She heard news of Heidegger, with who she was romantically linked from 1924-8. In this graphic novel, she asks herself why is he saying these things; she is truly at a loss at his embracing of Nazism.

Introduction to this graphic novel. ❤️

Found this at our HS library today. Excited to try this graphic novel about Hannah Arendt‘s life, her philosophy, her politics, her courage, her warts & all.

The mythology might be different, but I feel like we‘re currently looking at a similar mess playing out in the US. Wish I could shake the feeling that we‘re building up inexorably to a national disaster.
Krimstein‘s very, very good, and if not for the current resonances, I‘d be enjoying this a lot more.
Definitely worth a read.

Finished two books this week, and continuing May's #naturalitsy read

I had never heard of Hannah Arendt, first female full professor at Princeton, before reading this graphic biography. I‘m glad she made her three escapes so she could share her thinking-through with the world. Her philosophy makes a lot of sense.

I was reading this in a bookshop, and had to put it down to catch a train.
Before I finished it.
Sadness.

It seems there‘s an accidental theme in my latest library holds! I‘m very much looking forward to both of these. See @Lindy ‘s posts if the tagged book intrigues you. 😊

A deeply moving biography of Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, born in Prussia in 1906. She promoted the idea of pluralism; that there is no single truth. Cartoonist creator Ken Krimstein dresses Arendt in green, the colour of renewal, throughout this nonfiction #graphicnovel. Text-heavy pages, with lots of explanatory footnotes, are enlivened with expressive art. Arendt‘s belief that life is a glorious mess is personified in her scribbled hair.

I do not belong to the circle of philosophers. My profession, if one can speak of it at all, is political theory. -Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt‘s response to the interviewer‘s question about her book fitting into no mould: “Precisely.”

Before totalitarian leaders can fit reality to their lies, their message is an unrelenting contempt for facts.
-Hannah Arendt

Good graphic novel.

This is one of best graphic novels I‘ve read in a long time.