Editors Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make Hannah Arendt's important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents. A revelation that may force us to reconsider the traditional interpretation of Arendt's work.--KIRKUS REVIEWS. This is a revised and corrected English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts and other documents. It demonstrates how her early work on Augustine provides the key to her later critique of modernity. Preface: Rediscovering Love and Saint Augustine vii Acknowledgments xix LOVE AND SAINT AUGUSTINE Introduction 3(6) PART I Love as Craving: The Anticipated Future 9(36) The Structure of Craving (Appetitus) 9(9) Caritas and Cupiditas 18(18) The Order of Love 36(9) PART II Creator and Creature: The Remembered Past 45(53) The Origin 45(32) Caritas and Cupiditas 77(16) Love of Neighbor 93(5) PART III Social Life 98(115) REDISCOVERING HANNAH ARENDT Introduction: ``New Beginnings'' 115(27) ``Thought Trains'' 142(31) Heidegger: Arendt between Past and Future 173(25) Jaspers: Arendt and Existenz Philosophy 198(15) References 213(4) Index 217