Hannah Arendt

Thomas Meyer, born 1966 in Bernkastel-Kues, specializes in modern German philosophy and the history of ideas. He earned his doctorate in 2003 and completed his habilitation in 2009. Meyer is currently a professor of philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has held teaching positions at the universities of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Zurich, and Graz. His writing has appeared in leading publications such as Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Jüdische Allgemeine. He has published extensively on Ernst Cassirer, as well as on Jewish philosophy and theology. His 2006 biography of Cassirer was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. His most recent works include Über Palästina, which he edited. He is the editor of the twelve volumes studienausgabe (2020–2025) of Arendt’s German writings.
Shelley Frisch’s translations from German, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Franz Kafka, and a dual biography of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, along with many other works of fiction and nonfiction, have been awarded numerous translation prizes. Frisch has chaired the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize jury since 2015. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.