Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

HANNAH ARENDT (1906–1975) was a political theorist and scholar. Born in Germany into a family of secular Jews, as a young woman she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. In 1933, she was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, and subsequently interned in a concentration camp in the south of France, Camp Gurs. She fled to the United States in 1941 with her husband Heinrich Blücher. In the United States, she served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Princeton, Yale, and the New School for Social Research. She died in New York City at the age of sixty-nine.

ANDREW BROWN is a Cambridge-based translator from French and German, and the author of Roland Barthes: The Figures of Writing.

ROGER ERRERA is a former member of the Conseil d’Etat, France’s Supreme Court for administrative law, and the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of London. He is the author of a number of essays on media law, judicial institutions, immigration and refugee law, and European law. His most recent book is an essay on justice in France, Et ce sera justice…: Le juge dans la cité (Paris: Gallimard, 2013).

JOACHIM FEST (1926–2006) was a historian, journalist, and critic. He was the son of strongly anti-Nazi parents who refused to enroll him in the Hitler Youth. He edited the cultural section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1973 to 1993. He is also the author of a major biography of Hitler and other works on the Third Reich, including Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, Speer: The Final Verdict, and Plotting Hitler’s Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933–1945.

GÜNTER GAUS (1929–2004) was a journalist, television presenter, and politician. His show, Zur Person (In person), in which he interviewed politicians, scientists, and artists, ran from 1963 to 2003.

DENVER LINDLEY was an editor at Henry Holt, Harcourt Brace, and the Viking Press. His translations include Thomas Mann’s Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years, Erich Maria Remarque’s Arch of Triumph, and André Maurois’s Memoirs: 1885–1967.

URSULA LUDZ is the editor of Letters: 1925–1975 by Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, Denktagebuch (together with Ingeborg Nordmann) and Ich will verstehen, a collection of autobiographical statements by Arendt and a complete bibliography of her works. She is also a member of the editorial staff of the Internet journal HannahArendt.net.

ADELBERT REIF is a journalist and the editor of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Myth and Meaning: Five Radio Talks, among other books.

JOAN STAMBAUGH is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College, and the translator of a number of books by Martin Heidegger, including Being and Time, Identity and Difference, and The End of Philosophy.