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Hannah Arendt ( / ˈɛərənt, ˈɑːr -/, [9] [10] US also / əˈrɛnt /, [11] German: [ˌhana ˈaːʁənt] ⓘ; [12] born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. [5] [13] [14]
Jul 27, 2006 · Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organizations.
May 31, 2024 · Hannah Arendt (born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany—died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.
Hannah Arendt ( / ˈɛərənt, ˈɑːr -/, [1] [2] [3] [4] US also / əˈrɛnt /, [5] German: [ˈaːʁənt]; [6] 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. [7] [8] [9]
Hannah Arendt is a twentieth century political philosopher whose writings do not easily come together into a systematic philosophy that expounds and expands upon a single argument over a sequence of works.
To enter the world of Hannah Arendt is to encounter the political and moral catastrophes of the twentieth century. Her life spanned the convulsions of two world wars, revolutions and civil wars, and events worse than war in which human lives were uprooted and destroyed on a scale never seen before.
An essay on Hannah Arendt and her concepts of the nature of evil by Arendt scholar and trustee Jerome Kohn.
Hannah Arendt, (born Oct. 14, 1906, Hannover, Ger.—died Dec. 4, 1975, New York, N.Y., U.S.), German-born U.S. political philosopher. She studied philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Freiburg, and Heidelberg, receiving a doctorate from the latter in 1928.
Hannah Arendt composed distinct English and German versions of nearly all of her books and many of her essays. This edition makes the fundamentally plural dimension of her works visible and accessible.
Arendt has become most famous for her exploration of totalitarianism and her analysis of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the chief architects of the Holocaust.
