Yes, I agree that its not a very good review, but from a different angle, since the whole issue of Arendt is that she side-steps Heidegger's discourse on (polit

Yes, I agree that its not a very good review, but from a different angle, since the whole issue of Arendt is that she side-steps Heidegger's discourse on (political) Freedom--or rather, the lack thereof--in his ontologization of Kant. And also, of course, that the most famous Kantian was Nietzsche, for the simple reason that Nietzsche took morality into overdrive by transforming every type of Kantian maxim into its dialectically perverse flipside: be strong, be powerful, overcome weakness. Arendt just ignores both of them and positions herself as an advocate for "human freedom" in the vaguest possible terms, and probably came to prominence, as you say, because of the Cold War, rather than the originality of her thought.