The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is ...

"As head of the Gestapo's ""Jewish Evacuation Department,"" Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was the driving force in the impoverishment, deportation, and ...

Shows how both the theory and practice of revolution have developed since the American, French, and Russian Revolutions.

This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe ...

Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she ...

Presents an anthology of the works of Hannah Arendt, providing selections from her major works, including "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "The Human Condition" along with ...

Discusses Hitler's anti-Semitism, collaborationist governments, public opinion in Nazi Europe, death camp victims, the Jewish resistance, and the liberation of concentration camps