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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 — 36,062 ratings — published 1963 — 162 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 — 15,785 ratings — published 1951 — 51 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 — 10,110 ratings — published 1958 — 7 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 3.72 avg rating — 5,765 ratings — published 1970 — 60 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) 3.99 avg rating — 3,194 ratings — published 1956 — 96 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 — 2,807 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 4.08 avg rating — 2,164 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 — 1,603 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 — 1,012 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 — 939 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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The Origins of Totalitarianism (3 books)
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حياة العقل (2 books)
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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

100 votes, 8.9%

Albert Camus

74 votes, 6.6%

Karl Marx

62 votes, 5.5%

Soren Kierkegaard

49 votes, 4.4%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

45 votes, 4.0%

Aristotle

41 votes, 3.7%

Immanuel Kant

40 votes, 3.6%

Plato

38 votes, 3.4%

Marcus Aurelius

35 votes, 3.1%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

32 votes, 2.9%

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Jean-Paul Sartre

29 votes, 2.6%

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Thomas Aquinas

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Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.0%

René Descartes

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Augustine of Hippo

18 votes, 1.6%

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David Hume

16 votes, 1.4%

Martin Heidegger

16 votes, 1.4%

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15 votes, 1.3%

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15 votes, 1.3%

Hannah Arendt

13 votes, 1.2%

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11 votes, 1.0%

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10 votes, 0.9%

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10 votes, 0.9%

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Michael Oakeshott

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John Dewey (write-in)

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George Berkeley (write-in)

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Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

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Lucretius (write-in)

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Paul Preciado (write-in)

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Karl Popper (write-in)

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Julius Bahnsen (write-in)

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Joseph Campbell (write-in)

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