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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

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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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Hannah Arendt’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 94,581 ratings · 7,676 reviews · 398 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,996 ratings — published 1963 — 174 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 — 14,108 ratings — published 1951 — 190 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 — 9,271 ratings — published 1958 — 140 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 3.75 avg rating — 5,137 ratings — published 1970 — 19 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 — 2,971 ratings — published 1956 — 93 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 — 2,403 ratings — published 1967 — 4 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 4.09 avg rating — 1,961 ratings — published 1961 — 84 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 — 1,518 ratings — published 1971 — 57 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 — 946 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 — 858 ratings — published 2003	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

Hannah Arendt,

محسن ثلاثی (Translator)

4.10 avg rating — 1,481 ratings

حياة العقل (2 books)
by

Hannah Arendt,

حنة آرنت,

نادرة السنوسي (Translator)

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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Polls

July 2024 New School Classic Poll

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, 1963, 140 pages

38 votes, 21.1%

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pages

38 votes, 21.1%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232 pages

37 votes, 20.6%

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, 1958, 349 pages

26 votes, 14.4%

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 1966, 169 pages

20 votes, 11.1%

Ways of Seeing by John Berger, 1972, 176 pages

11 votes, 6.1%

Jubilee by Margaret Walker, 1966, 497 pages

10 votes, 5.6%

180 total votes

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