Love and Saint Augustine

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New Yor...

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her most influential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts she was using in her political works of the same period. The dissertation became a bridge over which Arendt traveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York, carrying with her Augustine's question about the possibility of social life in an age of rapid political and moral change.

汉娜•阿伦特（Hannah Arendt，1906—1975) ，20世纪最具原创性的思想家、政治理论家之一，著有《极权主义的起源》《人的境况》等。早年于马堡和弗莱堡大学攻读哲学，师从海德格尔，后师从海德堡大学的雅斯贝尔斯，获哲学博士学位。1933年后流亡巴黎。1941年定居美国，先后在普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学等开办讲座，还担任过芝加哥大学和纽约社会研究新学院的教授。

J.V.斯考特，本书编者，东密歇根大学政治学教授；J.C.斯塔克，本书编者，美国西顿•霍尔大学哲学教授。

译者王寅丽，华东师范大学哲学系副教授，译著有《当代法国哲学》《人的境况》《过去与未来之间》《多元现代性：一个斯堪的纳维亚经验的故事》；译者池伟添，华东师范大学哲学硕士。