Arendt H. Men in dark times

New York: A Harvest Book; Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1968. ISBN: 0156588900, 9780156588904.Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. If one searches for a unifying theme in this collection, the only candidate is the question: How does one behave in dark times? Does one engage and struggle or does one withdraw and use one's limited time and energies for other matters? But, in point of fact, no theme is common to all of the essays. Some, like the last two on Randall Jarrell and Waldemar Gurian, are prose elegies that briefly and evocatively resurrect close friends of Arendt. Many are essay/reviews that appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and therefore in the well known manner take the occasion of a book review to expand upon a closely related subject at some length.On humanity in dark times: thoughts about Lessing (Translated by Clara and Ricltard Winston).
Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919.
Angelo giuseppe roncalli: a christian on St. Peter's chair from 1958 to 1963.
Karl Jaspers: a laudatio (Translated by Clara and Richard Winston).
Karl Jaspers: citizen of the world?
Isak Dinesen: 1885-1963.
Hermann Broch: 1886-1951 (Translated by Richard Winston).
Walter Benjamin: 1892-1940 (Translated by Harry Zohn).
Bertolt Brecht: 1898-1956.
Waldemar Gurian: 1903-1954.
Randall Jarrell: 1914-1965.