Hannah Arendt: A Life of the MindBased 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