Men in Dark Times Book by Hannah Arendt

Men in Dark Times (1968) is a collection of intellectual biographies and essays by Hannah Arendt that explores how specific 20th-century individuals provided "illumination" during an era of political and moral catastrophe. Borrowing the phrase "dark times" from Bertolt Brecht, Arendt uses the book to examine how humanity and integrity can be maintained when the public realm fails to offer transparency or freedom.