BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 54 78ARENDT, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago, 1958. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $24,000 First edition of Hannah Arendt’s landmark second book, marking her “emergence as political thinker of truly staggering range and depth,” inscribed by her, Für E—- an Tübingen im July 1958. Hannah Arendt.” Hannah Arendt is “widely recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th century”(Villa, Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, 1). Her life and work trace “a passionate trajectory through some of the crucial areas of European and American thought in this century… She was relentless in trying to comprehend the darkness of her times” (New York Times). Fleeing the Nazis in 1940, Arendt became a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale, and other schools, including the University of Chicago, where she delivered a series of major lectures that became the basis for her second book, The Human Condition. As one of her most influential works, it fundamentally marked “Arendt’s emergence as a political thinker of truly staggering range and depth”(Villa, 8). The inscription, dated in the year of publication, was done in Tübingen, where Arendt delivered an influential series of lectures on totalitarianism at the university in the 1950s. A few marginal pencil annotations in the first few pages of text. Book with toning to boards, four small rubs to front board; price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to extremities, very mild toning to spine. A very good copy. Scarce and desirable inscribed. “One Of The Most Original And Influential Thinkers Of The 20th Century”
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