On Revolution is the great political thinker Hannah Arendt''s classic exploration of a phenomenon that has radically reshaped the world. Exploring the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France through to the explosive political upheavals of the twentieth-century, On Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to decipher the forces that have shaped our tumultuous age. This edition includes a foreword by David Runciman. ''More than any thinker it was Arendt who identified how movements of ideas, racial theories, people and methods . . . ultimately disfigured the twentieth century.'' David Olusoga ''Enormously erudite, always imaginative, original and full of insights.'' Sunday Times

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Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States where she became one of the world's most influential academic and political theorists. Famed for her observations on totalitarian regimes like Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, as well as 'the banality of evil', Arendt is also the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and The Human Condition.

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When should we revolt? A life-changing insight into violent political change by one of the world's greatest political thinkers and author of surprise recent bestseller The Origins of Totalitarianism.