This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty

'Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original'

PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street

'Beautifully written... Biography at its best'

EDDIE GLAUDE, author of Begin Again

The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migratio...

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it.

The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the true story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to be...