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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.
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. May 8, 2022, 5:00 AM PDT. If...
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 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.
An essay on Hannah Arendt and her concepts of the nature of evil by Arendt scholar and trustee Jerome Kohn.
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.
Fifty years ago, on October 28, 1964, a televised conversation between the German-Jewish political theorist, Hannah Arendt, and the well-known German journalist, Günter Gaus, was broadcast in West Germany.
The papers of the author, educator and philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection reflecting a complex career.
