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Hannah Arendt


Born
in Linden, Germany
October 14, 1906

Died
December 04, 1975

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Genre
Philosophy, History, Politics

Influences
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus, Duns Sc ...more


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