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THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT
A Tyranny of Truth
For fans of Persepolis and Logicomix, a stunningly illustrated, page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent woman 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 book on openness in political life, On the Origins of Totalitarianism, whose powerful lessons on the dangers of populism made the hefty 1951 book swiftly ascend bestseller lists in the wake of the 2016 election.
She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution first-hand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, and Mary McCarthy, and 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."
Arendt has been a figure both revered and reviled, as much for her uncompromising ideas about democracy and truth as for the intense contradictions of her own life, from her birth in the East Prussia of the Edwardian era to her death in post-Watergate New York City.
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.
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in The New Yorker, Punch, National Lampoon, The Wall Street Journal, three of S. Gross's cartoon anthologies, King Features' "The New Breed" syndicated panel, Cosmopolitan, Science, Psychology Today, and more. He has written for New York Observer's "New Yorker's Diary" and has published pieces on websites including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. He is the author of Kvetch as Kvetch Can, and teaches at De Paul University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution first-hand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, and Mary McCarthy, and 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."
Arendt has been a figure both revered and reviled, as much for her uncompromising ideas about democracy and truth as for the intense contradictions of her own life, from her birth in the East Prussia of the Edwardian era to her death in post-Watergate New York City.
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.
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in The New Yorker, Punch, National Lampoon, The Wall Street Journal, three of S. Gross's cartoon anthologies, King Features' "The New Breed" syndicated panel, Cosmopolitan, Science, Psychology Today, and more. He has written for New York Observer's "New Yorker's Diary" and has published pieces on websites including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. He is the author of Kvetch as Kvetch Can, and teaches at De Paul University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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