{"product_id":"9781635571882","title":"The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLogicomix\u003c\/i\u003e fans, a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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 1951 book on openness in political life,\u003ci\u003e The Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, which, with its powerful lessons for today, has once again ascended bestseller lists in the wake of the 2016 election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning,\u003ci\u003e New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecartoonist Ken Krimstein's\u003ci\u003e The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052481331440,"sku":"9781635571882","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781635571882_p0.jpg?v=1763683044","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781635571882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}