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Hannah Arendt

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born
in Linden, Germany
October 14, 1906

died
December 04, 1975

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Philosophy, History, Politics

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Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Paul, Duns Scotus, S...more


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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 organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature...more


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Average rating: 4.16 · 13,789 ratings · 754 reviews · 122 distinct works · Similar authors
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Re...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 2,954 ratings — published 1963 — 38 editions
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The Human Condition
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,045 ratings — published 1958 — 25 editions
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 1951 — 36 editions
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On Violence
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions
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On Revolution
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions
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The Life of the Mind
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions
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Between Past and Future
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1960 — 18 editions
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Men in Dark Times
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1970 — 10 editions
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The Portable Hannah Arendt
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Eichmann and the Holocaust
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions
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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
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“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
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