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1 Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)

Hannah Arendt

From Great Thinkers A-Z
Hannah Arendt is widely recognised as among the most original and profound political thinkers of the twentieth century as well as one of the most controversial. Arendt produced no systematic political theory but dealt with a series of interrelated topics including totalitarianism, the public and private realms, the structure of public action, and the modern loss of the public realm of politics through preoccupation with economic well-being. Arendt's work is controversial because of her abstraction, examples, and startling observations and conclusions regarding recurring themes. Even her strongest defenders find much that needs qualification and revision in her work. Such controversy would have pleased Arendt, for she did not intend to found a school of thought with disciples, but to attempt to ‘think what we are doing’ in our public and private lives. Arendt intended her work to stimulate further thought in others as it did in herself. The vast literature on Arendt is a tribute to her…
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Full text Article ARENDT, HANNAH,

From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
ARENDT, HANNAH,
Arendt fled Nazi Germany in 1933, where her influences philosophically had been Karl JASPERS , Edmund HUSSERL and Martin HEIDEGGER , travelling first to France and then to the United States. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) attempts to link IMPERIALISM , RACISM and the ‘lust for power’ (as…
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Full text Article Hannah Arendt

From Great Thinkers A-Z
Hannah Arendt is widely recognised as among the most original and profound political thinkers of the twentieth century as well as one of the most controversial. Arendt produced no systematic political theory but dealt with a series of interrelated topics including totalitarianism, the public and…
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Full text Article Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Born in Hanover, Germany, Arendt was, from 1967 until her death, a university professor of the Graduate School at the New School for Social Research in New York, and editor of Schocken Books (1946-48). Arendt was one of the leading political philosophers of her time and a critic of the social…
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Full text Article Arendt, Hannah

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
German-American political philosopher. Born in Hanover into a Jewish family, she studied at Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg, where her teachers Jaspers and Heidegger initiated her interest in Existentialism. She completed her doctoral thesis on St Augustine’s concept of love in 1928. In 1933, after…
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Full text Article Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)

From Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Arendt’s parents were well-educated socialists who had little taste for religion. But they did allow Hannah to accompany her Re-form-Jewish, Arendt-grandparents to Königsberg’s synagogue, whose Rabbi Vogelstein was a leader of liberal German Jewry. It was from this same rabbi that several times a…
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Before 1960, Arendt was best known for two books. In The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) she analyzed “the burden of our time”: the thoroughgoing eradication of political freedom by totalitarian regimes, accomplished through ideology and terror. The Human Condition (1958) elaborated her response…
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Full text Article Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
A German-born political scientist and philosopher, Hannah Arendt is generally regarded as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and original political theorists and one of the most celebrated and admired intellectuals of the post-World War II world. Her best-known works, The Origins of…
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Full text Article TYRANNY

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. In Auden , A Certain World (1970). Oppression makes the wise man mad. BROWNING, Robert Luria (1846). Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. …
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Full text Article GUILT

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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. ARENDT, Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). For all guilt is avenged on earth. GOETHE Wilhelm…
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Full text Article PUNISHMENT

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. ARENDT, Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil. BENTHAM, Jeremy An Introduction to the Principles of Morals…
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