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Arendt’s ideas, as much today as in her own lifetime, illuminate those issues that perplex us, such as totalitarianism, terrorism, globalization, war, and “radical evil.”   Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who was Arendt’s doctoral student in the early 1970s and who wrote the definitive biography of her mentor in 1982, now revisits Arendt’s major works and seminal ideas. Young-Bruehl considers what Arendt’s analysis of the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union can teach us about our own times, and how her revolutionary understanding of political action is connected to forgiveness and making promises for the future. The author also discusses The Life of the Mind, Arendt’s unfinished meditation on how to think about thinking. Placed in the context of today’s political landscape, Arendt’s ideas take on a new immediacy and importance. 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In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the earlier edition: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.--Peter Berger, front page, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of surprising drama . . . . 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This prejudice-\"childism\"-legitimates and rationalizes a broad continuum of acts that are not \"in the best interests of children,\" including the often violent extreme of child abuse and neglect. According to Young-Bruehl, reform is possible only if we acknowledge this prejudice in its basic forms and address the motives and cultural forces that drive it, rather than dwell on the various categories of abuse and punishment.  \"There will always be individuals and societies that turn on their children,\" writes Young-Bruehl, \"breaking the natural order Aristotle described two and a half millennia ago in his Nichomachean Ethics.\" In Childism, Young-Bruehl focuses especially on the ways in which Americans have departed from the child-supportive trends of the Great Society and of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Many years in the making, Childism draws upon a wide range of sources, from the literary and philosophical to the legal and psychoanalytic. 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