Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Love and Saint Augustine
Hannah Arendt · 1996
80/100
👍 Worth It
This is one of the most important documents in 20th-century philosophy — Arendt's earliest thinking on love, caritas, and community, and the editors make a compelling case that it unlocks the rest of her career. It is genuinely demanding: readers without background in Augustine and Heidegger will struggle. For the right academic or serious lay reader, though, it's irreplaceable.
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substance90
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originality88
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