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By Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt started her scholarly occupation with an exploration of Saint Augustine's thought of caritas, or neighborly love, written lower than the course of Karl Jaspers and the impact of Martin Heidegger. After her German educational existence got here to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took an identical battered and stained reproduction to big apple. in the course of the past due Nineteen Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties, as she was once finishing or remodeling her so much influential experiences of political existence, Arendt was once concurrently annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with phrases and ideas she used to be utilizing in her political works of a similar interval. The disseration turned a bridge over which Arendt traveled from side to side among 1929 Heidelberg and Sixties manhattan, wearing along with her Augustine's query concerning the probability of social existence in an age of swift political and ethical change.

In Love and Saint Augustine, Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make this crucial early paintings obtainable for the 1st time. here's a thoroughly corrected and revised English translation that comes with Arendt's personal sizeable revisions and offers extra notes according to letters, contracts, and different records in addition to the reminiscences of Arendt's neighbors and associates in the course of her later years.

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