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Hannah Arendt

Born

in Linden, Germany

October 14, 1906

Died

December 04, 1975

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/

Genre

Philosophy, History, Politics

Influences

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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 natu ...more

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	Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 34,043 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins of Totalitarianism 4.30 avg rating — 14,971 ratings — published 1951 — 189 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Margaret Canovan (Introduction) 4.20 avg rating — 9,674 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Violence 3.74 avg rating — 5,464 ratings — published 1970 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Revolution by Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Schell (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,076 ratings — published 1956 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Freiheit, frei zu sein by Hannah Arendt, Andreas Wirthensohn (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 2,619 ratings — published 1967 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Past and Future 4.08 avg rating — 2,051 ratings — published 1961 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy 4.25 avg rating — 1,570 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eichmann and the Holocaust 4.10 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Responsibility and Judgment 4.23 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism (3 books)
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محسن ثلاثی (Translator)

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حياة العقل (2 books)
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حنة آرنت,

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Quotes by Hannah Arendt (?)

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

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“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

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Friedrich Nietzsche

92 votes, 9.2%

Albert Camus

71 votes, 7.1%

Karl Marx

48 votes, 4.8%

Soren Kierkegaard

46 votes, 4.6%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

40 votes, 4.0%

Aristotle

39 votes, 3.9%

Plato

37 votes, 3.7%

Immanuel Kant

36 votes, 3.6%

Marcus Aurelius

33 votes, 3.3%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

29 votes, 2.9%

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Jean-Paul Sartre

28 votes, 2.8%

Thomas Aquinas

26 votes, 2.6%

yes (write-in)

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spinoza (write-in)

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Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.2%

Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)

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Fyodor dostoevsky (write-in)

20 votes, 2.0%

Augustine of Hippo

17 votes, 1.7%

René Descartes

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17 votes, 1.7%

David Hume

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Jesus (write-in)

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Martin Heidegger

13 votes, 1.3%

José Ortega y Gasset

11 votes, 1.1%

Epictetus (write-in)

11 votes, 1.1%

Hannah Arendt

10 votes, 1.0%

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9 votes, 0.9%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 0.8%

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8 votes, 0.8%

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8 votes, 0.8%

Simone Weil (write-in)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Carl Jung (write-in)

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Mário Ferreira dos Santos

5 votes, 0.5%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

wine (write-in)

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Slavoj Zizek (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

Roger Scruton

4 votes, 0.4%

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Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Kosov (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Serb (write-in)

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Hypatia

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Euclid (write-in)

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3 votes, 0.3%

Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Eric Voegelin

2 votes, 0.2%

Maimonides (write-in)

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Thomas Hobbes (write-in)

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Edmund Husserl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Judith Butler (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Jacques Derrida (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Michael Oakeshott

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John Dewey (write-in)

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Rene Guenon (write-in)

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George Berkeley (write-in)

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Heraclitus (write-in)

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Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)

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Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

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Paul Preciado (write-in)

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Max Stirner (write-in)

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Joseph Campbell (write-in)

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Gottfried Leibniz (write-in)

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Parmenides (write-in)

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George Santayana (write-in)

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Voltaire (write-in)

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Jeremy Bentham (write-in)

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Lucretius (write-in)

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Niccoló Machiavelli

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Karl Popper (write-in)

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