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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 was a German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism. Arendt grew up in Hannover, Germany, and in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
May 8, 2022 · If you asked me to name the most important political theorist of the 20th century, my answer would be Hannah Arendt. You could make arguments for other philosophers — John Rawls comes to mind...
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.
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.
