For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of
the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and how their
profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for
political theory and philosophy Two of the most iconic thinkers of
the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin
(1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics,
history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and
experiences as Jewish emigre intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt
intensely, saying that she represented "everything that I detest
most," while Arendt met Berlin's hostility with indifference and
suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama,
tragedy and passion, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the
first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between
these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different
views continue to offer important lessons for political thought
today. Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta
traces the Arendt-Berlin conflict, from their first meeting in
wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during
the 1950s, the controversy over Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in
Jerusalem, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other
at a 1967 conference and Berlin's continuing animosity toward
Arendt after her death. Hiruta blends political philosophy and
intellectual history to examine key issues that simultaneously
connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including the nature of
totalitarianism, evil and the Holocaust, human agency and moral
responsibility, Zionism, American democracy, British imperialism
and the Hungarian Revolution. But, most of all, Arendt and Berlin
disagreed over a question that goes to the heart of the human
condition: what does it mean to be free?
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