First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape, 1968.
A collection of essays on the lives of eleven 'men and women of enlightenment who have illuminated the public darkness of their age - the 'dark times' of which Brecht spoke in his poem To Posterity' (dust jacket blurb). The subjects include Arendt's mentor, the existential philosopher Karl Jaspers, as well as Rosa Luxemburg, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Isak Dinesen, and Bertlot Brecht, amongst others.
A near fine copy, light wear to jacket corners.
