512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter
The History of Literature
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Hannah Arendt: A Lifeline to Freedom
It took me a long time to dig into the life of Hannah Arendt because I was taught in school that you don't confuse the political thought of a thinker with their life story. And so when I read Elizabeth Young-Brull's 1982 biography for the Love of the World, she wrote it before a lot of the archives were open and materials were available. So I was really fascinated by not so much her childhood, but by the sheer force of will that was present on the pages. Just the confidence and the desire to explore these things that maybe weren't being explored. She has that an effable hunger for life and desire to really experience life in the world. Nothing was
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