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Hannah Arendt (/ ˈ ɛər ə n t, ˈ ɑːr-/, US also / ə ˈ r ɛ n t /, German: [ˌhana ˈaːʁənt] ⓘ; born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher.
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.
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.
Hannah Arendt (1906—1975) 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.
The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was Hannah Arendt's first major work, where she describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism as the major totalitarian political movements of the first half of the 20th century.
Jan 18, 2024 · The masses’ escape from reality, Hannah Arendt observed in a sentence that rears up from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, is a verdict against the world in which they are forced to live and in which they cannot exist.
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.
Robert Eaglestone explains how Hannah Arendt summed up the essence of totalitarianism. Arendt’s refugee status made her an expert in how society must function because she was outside it.
