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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 — 35,043 ratings — published 1963 — 163 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 4.29 avg rating — 15,425 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) 4.19 avg rating — 9,926 ratings — published 1958 — 144 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 3.73 avg rating — 5,622 ratings — published 1970 — 61 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 — 3,139 ratings — published 1956 — 95 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 — 2,710 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 — 2,106 ratings — published 1961 — 86 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 — 1,583 ratings — published 1971 — 61 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 4.09 avg rating — 994 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 — 912 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)
by

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محسن ثلاثی (Translator)

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حياة العقل (2 books)
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Hannah Arendt,

حنة آرنت,

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3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings

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

95 votes, 9.0%

Albert Camus

73 votes, 6.9%

Karl Marx

54 votes, 5.1%

Soren Kierkegaard

47 votes, 4.5%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

41 votes, 3.9%

Aristotle

39 votes, 3.7%

Immanuel Kant

38 votes, 3.6%

Plato

37 votes, 3.5%

Marcus Aurelius

34 votes, 3.2%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

31 votes, 2.9%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

31 votes, 2.9%

Jean-Paul Sartre

29 votes, 2.7%

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Thomas Aquinas

26 votes, 2.5%

yes (write-in)

24 votes, 2.3%

Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)

24 votes, 2.3%

spinoza (write-in)

23 votes, 2.2%

Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.1%

Fyodor dostoevsky (write-in)

21 votes, 2.0%

René Descartes

19 votes, 1.8%

Augustine of Hippo

18 votes, 1.7%

Jesus of Nazareth (write-in)

18 votes, 1.7%

Socrates (write-in)

17 votes, 1.6%

David Hume

15 votes, 1.4%

Martin Heidegger

15 votes, 1.4%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

15 votes, 1.4%

Jesus (write-in)

14 votes, 1.3%

Hannah Arendt

11 votes, 1.0%

José Ortega y Gasset

11 votes, 1.0%

Epictetus (write-in)

11 votes, 1.0%

Bertrand Russell (write-in)

9 votes, 0.9%

Carl Jung (write-in)

9 votes, 0.9%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 0.8%

Julius Evola (write-in)

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Ibn Sina (write-in)

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Simone Weil (write-in)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

7 votes, 0.7%

Slavoj Zizek (write-in)

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Aristotle (write-in)

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Buddha (write-in)

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Sigmund Freud (write-in)

6 votes, 0.6%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

5 votes, 0.5%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

wine (write-in)

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Roger Scruton

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Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

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Charles Darwin (write-in)

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Ayn Rand (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Kosov (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Serb (write-in)

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Hypatia

3 votes, 0.3%

Maimonides (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Rene Guenon (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Euclid (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Judith Butler (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Eric Voegelin

2 votes, 0.2%

William James (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Thomas Hobbes (write-in)

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Albert Einstein (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Francis Bacon (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Alan Watts (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Edmund Husserl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Jacques Derrida (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Max Stirner (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Michel Foucault (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

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2 votes, 0.2%

Michael Oakeshott

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John Dewey (write-in)

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Henri Bergson (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

George Berkeley (write-in)

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Heraclitus (write-in)

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Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Parmenides (write-in)

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Democritus (write-in)

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Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Lucretius (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Niccoló Machiavelli

1 vote, 0.1%

Paul Preciado (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Diogenes (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Seneca (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Joseph Campbell (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Gottfried Leibniz (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

George Santayana (write-in)

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Voltaire (write-in)

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Jeremy Bentham (write-in)

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B. F. Skinner (write-in)

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Karl Popper (write-in)

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