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May 8, 2022 · The philosopher who warned us about loneliness and totalitarianism. Revisiting Hannah Arendt’s ideas about social isolation and mass resentment. By Sean Illing @seanilling sean.illing@vox.com...
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.
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.
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 was a humanist thinker who thought boldly and provocatively about our shared political and ethical world. Inspired by philosophy, she warned against the political dangers of philosophy to abstract and obfuscate the plurality and reality of our shared world.
The papers of author, educator, political philosopher, and public intellectual Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) constitute a large and diverse collection (25,000 items; 82,597 images) reflecting a complex career.
Can foreigners offer civil resistance to the authorities of the host country? A critical reevaluation of “civil resistance” in the fields of civil resistance studies and Hannah Arendt studies
