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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 — 31,576 ratings — published 1963 — 2 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 — 13,916 ratings — published 1951 — 22 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 — 9,184 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 — 5,063 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 — 2,948 ratings — published 1956 — 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
	Die Freiheit, frei zu sein by Hannah Arendt, Andreas Wirthensohn (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 2,343 ratings — published 1967	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 — 1,946 ratings — published 1961 — 5 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 — 1,508 ratings — published 1971 — 2 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 — 940 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 — 849 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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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

85 votes, 10.1%

Albert Camus

59 votes, 7.0%

Soren Kierkegaard

39 votes, 4.7%

Karl Marx

38 votes, 4.5%

Aristotle

36 votes, 4.3%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Plato

32 votes, 3.8%

Immanuel Kant

30 votes, 3.6%

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28 votes, 3.3%

Jean-Paul Sartre

26 votes, 3.1%

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26 votes, 3.1%

Thomas Aquinas

24 votes, 2.9%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

24 votes, 2.9%

Simone de Beauvoir

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spinoza (write-in)

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René Descartes

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David Hume

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José Ortega y Gasset

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10 votes, 1.2%

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9 votes, 1.1%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 1.0%

Hannah Arendt

8 votes, 1.0%

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7 votes, 0.8%

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

6 votes, 0.7%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.6%

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Mário Ferreira dos Santos

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Aristotle (write-in)

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Kosov (write-in)

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Serb (write-in)

3 votes, 0.4%

Hypatia

3 votes, 0.4%

Bertrand Russell (write-in)

3 votes, 0.4%

Carl Jung (write-in)

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Maimonides (write-in)

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Michael Oakeshott

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John Dewey (write-in)

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Rene Guenon (write-in)

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Heraclitus (write-in)

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William James (write-in)

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Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)

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Parmenides (write-in)

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Voltaire (write-in)

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Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

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Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

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Alan Watts (write-in)

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Edmund Husserl (write-in)

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