The Life of the Mind

This is Hanna Arendt's latest, unfinished work - and in my opinion, her finest one. Check out the Wikipedia entry, summarizing her life.

I have been long convinced that most people cannot think, are not aware of this, and do not want to know, that they are not aware of this. This statement says a lot, and has to be carefully unpacked.

She attacks this problem from a different angle. But she died in 1975, and did not foresee the collapse of America later in that Century.