Antonia Grunenberg is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (IUP), editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics, and editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Citizenship in an Era of Human Rights. She is editor of Philosophy Today.Elizabeth von Witzke Birmingham lives and works in Berlin. She is translator (with Peg Birmingham) of Dominique Janicaud's Powers of the Rational: Science, Technology, and the Future of Thought (IUP).Kristina Lebedeva is a doctoral student of Philosophy at DePaul University.

• Foreword by Peg BirminghamAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the English TranslationIntroduction1. World Out of Joint, or How the Revolution in Philosophy Began2. Life's Transformation, or the Sudden Eruption of Love into Life3. The Failure of the German-Jewish Symbiosis, or Friends Becoming Enemies 4. Heidegger absconditus, or the Discovery of America5. The Break in Tradition and a New Beginning, or Arendt and Heidegger in Counterpoint 6. Amor mundi, or Thinking the World after the CatastropheChronologyIndex