Thomas Meyer

Nach dem Bruch mit seiner frommen judischen Familie wird Motti Wolkenbruch von Schicksalsgenossen aufgenommen. Wie sich bald zeigt, haben die aber weit mehr als nur Unterstutzung im Sinn: Sie trachten nach der Weltherrschaft. Bisher allerdings erfolglos. Erst als Motti das Steuer ubernimmt, geht es vorwarts. Doch eine Gruppe von Nazis hat das gleiche Ziel.

Una biografía importante por la nueva documentación que incorpora para la comprensión de la figura de Hannah Arendt. ¿Por qué una nueva biografía de Hannah Arendt?Porque el autor ha tenido acceso a documentacion hasta ahora desconocida, que permite explorar nuevos angulos y enriquecer la comprension de una de las pensadoras mas relevantes de la historia contemporanea. Porque presta especial atencion a dos momentos cruciales de la vida de Arendt: su estancia en Paris tras su huida de Alemania y sus primeros años en Estados Unidos. Porque desvela el compromiso de la filosofa con la causa judia y su participacion directa en la salvacion de niños y jovenes frente al nazismo. Porque el pensamiento de Arendt se ha revelado como uno de los proyectos intelectuales mas lucidos del siglo pasado, y esta nueva aproximacion a su figura nos desvela a un personaje mas complejo de lo que hasta ahora creiamos.Las vicisitudes y el compromiso de Arendt ante el horror del nazismo ayudan a comprender la forja de su pensamiento filosofico. Thomas Meyer ha escrito una biografia rigurosa y de lectura apasionante que arroja nueva luz sobre una mujer comprometida, una de las intelectuales mas brillantes del siglo XX.

Frédéric-Guillaume, roi en Prusse et margrave de Brandebourg, le sait bien : pour assurer un avenir prospère à son royaume, deux choses sont nécessaires, un commerce fl orissant et une armée impressio

Frédéric-Guillaume, roi en Prusse et margrave de Brandebourg, le sait bien : pour assurer un avenir prospère à son royaume, deux choses sont nécessaires, un commerce fl orissant et une armée impressio

Il giovane ebreo ortodosso Mordechai Wolkenbruch, detto Motti, ha un problema: sua madre e la sua ossessione per il matrimonio. Nel suo impegno per farlo sposare fissa al figlio decine di appuntamenti con le ragazze piu svariate. Giovani donne che pero assomigliano tutte a lei e che sono decisamente diverse da quelle che attraggono Motti. Tra questultime ce Laura, ad esempio, sua compagna di studi che pero non e ebrea, indossa pantaloni, e cosi bella che gli uomini non le sanno resistere, beve Gin Tonic e le piace parlare in modo indecente e libero. La passione per lei cresce e la tempesta sta per abbattersi su Motti: che fare? Continuare a seguire la tradizione, obbedendo alla madre e sottostando ai suoi modi invadenti, o provare a essere se stessi, percorrendo la propria strada? Con una lingua diretta, divertente, ricca di umorismo, Thomas Meyer ci accompagna nella ribellione di un ragazzo che con un paio di occhiali alla Woody Allen prova a sfidare le convenzioni e a rincorrere la felicita. Un vero e proprio caso letterario, una ventata daria fresca e lo sguardo rivolto alle domande che prima o poi tutti dobbiamo porci nel nostro diventare adulti.

« Thomas Meyer est l’un des meilleurs connaisseurs de la vie et de l’œuvre d’Hannah Arendt. » Frédéric Joly, Le Monde Philosophe, journaliste, politologue, professeure et bien sûr autrice d’œuvr

The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth centuryDrawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documentsfrom both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Tracing anew Arendts journey from Konigsberg to Paris, where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933, and finally to New York in 1941, Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge for her. Meyers account centers on two pivotal phasesArendts years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1955providing not only a meticulous reconstruction of her life but also a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our times.At a time of acute political polarization, with liberalism in crisis and urgent debates about freedom, responsibility, and truth unfolding all around, Arendts writings and ideas resonate more powerfully than ever. Meyers account of her extraordinary life is groundbreaking and sensational, not just for his illuminating and peerless research, but also for his incisive exploration of what Arendts work has meant over the decadesand continues to mean for us today.

Based on new archival research, this is a major new biography on Hannah Arendt, tracing for the first time the intellectual development of, arguably, the twentieth centurys most influential thinker. In this extraordinary biography, Thomas Meyer seeks to explain the fascination that the woman, friend, lover, journalist, Jew, human rights activist, philosopher and political theorist Arendt continues to exert and to help both those who arent and those who are familiar with her better understand the phenomenon of her as an icon and thinker. Born in Germany in 1907, Hannah Arendt was a chronicler able to translate personal experience into concise analysis and so make it comprehensible to others; an analytical thinker who wrested from Plato, Kant and Heidegger that which seemed eternal and yet was of the utmost contemporary relevance; a free spirit who felt an obligation only towards her friends and lovers and the truth, who didnt shy away from any risk and trusted her opponents to take the same kind of pains with people and the world as she. Arendts mode of thinking, the sheer range of her interlocutors and influences form an intellectual panorama of the 20th century thats unparalleled. You only have to look at some of her German teachers, friends, and intellectual alliances to see that for her entire life, Arendt refused to think within boundaries: Heidegger, Bultmann, Mannheim, Brecht, and Benjamin, to name but a few.