Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, and director of the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics.

It is difficult to do justice to the rich texture of Benhabib's argument and interpretation, which is a magisterial dialectic between modernity and existentialism, reformism and utopianism, and fundamentalism and perspectivalism. Benhabib's book remains one of the most stimulating of the recent spate of books on Arendt.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Hannah Arendt?Chapter 2 The Pariah and Her Shadow: Hannah Arendt's Biography of Rahel VarnhagenChapter 3 Jewish Politics and German "Existenz Philosophy": The Sources of Hannah Arendt's ThoughtChapter 4 The Destruction of the Public Sphere and the Emergence of TotalitarianismChapter 5 The Dialogue With Martin Heidegger: Arendt's Ontology of The Human ConditionChapter 6 The Art of Making and Subverting Distinctions: With Arendt, Contra ArendtChapter 7 From the Problem of Judgment to the Public Sphere: Rethinking Hannah Arendt's Political Theory

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, and director of the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics.

It is difficult to do justice to the rich texture of Benhabib's argument and interpretation, which is a magisterial dialectic between modernity and existentialism, reformism and utopianism, and fundamentalism and perspectivalism. Benhabib's book remains one of the most stimulating of the recent spate of books on Arendt.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Hannah Arendt?Chapter 2 The Pariah and Her Shadow: Hannah Arendt's Biography of Rahel VarnhagenChapter 3 Jewish Politics and German "Existenz Philosophy": The Sources of Hannah Arendt's ThoughtChapter 4 The Destruction of the Public Sphere and the Emergence of TotalitarianismChapter 5 The Dialogue With Martin Heidegger: Arendt's Ontology of The Human ConditionChapter 6 The Art of Making and Subverting Distinctions: With Arendt, Contra ArendtChapter 7 From the Problem of Judgment to the Public Sphere: Rethinking Hannah Arendt's Political Theory