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On Revolution
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On Revolution is the great political thinker Hannah Arendt's classic exploration of a phenomenon that has radically reshaped the world. Exploring the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France through to the explosive political upheavals of the twentieth century, On Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking...
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On Revolution is the great political thinker Hannah Arendt's classic exploration of a phenomenon that has radically reshaped the world.
A life-changing insight into violent political change by one of the world's greatest political thinkers.
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Description
On Revolution is the great political thinker Hannah Arendt's classic exploration of a phenomenon that has radically reshaped the world. Exploring the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France through to the explosive political upheavals of the twentieth century, On Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to decipher the forces that have shaped our tumultuous age.
This edition includes a foreword by David Runciman.
'More than any thinker it was Arendt who identified how movements of ideas, racial theories, people and methods... ultimately disfigured the twentieth century.' David Olusoga
'Enormously erudite, always imaginative, original and full of insights.' Sunday Times
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571399253
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906. She studied philosophy, receiving a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. Arendt fled Germany in 1933 and went to France, before arriving in the United States in 1941, taking American citizenship ten years later. She taught at universities including Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and Yale, and wrote numerous works of political theory. She died in 1975.
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