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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 — 32,874 ratings — published 1963 — 14 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 — 14,517 ratings — published 1951 — 10 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 — 9,455 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 — 5,291 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 — 3,022 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 — 2,488 ratings — published 1967 — 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
	Between Past and Future 4.09 avg rating — 1,995 ratings — published 1961 — 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
	The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy 4.25 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 1971 — 3 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 — 965 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 — 875 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,

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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Friedrich Nietzsche

90 votes, 9.7%

Albert Camus

65 votes, 7.0%

Karl Marx

44 votes, 4.8%

Soren Kierkegaard

41 votes, 4.4%

Aristotle

38 votes, 4.1%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

36 votes, 3.9%

Plato

33 votes, 3.6%

Immanuel Kant

32 votes, 3.5%

Marcus Aurelius

32 votes, 3.5%

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29 votes, 3.1%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

28 votes, 3.0%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

27 votes, 2.9%

Jean-Paul Sartre

27 votes, 2.9%

Thomas Aquinas

26 votes, 2.8%

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24 votes, 2.6%

Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.4%

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20 votes, 2.2%

spinoza (write-in)

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Fyodor dostoevsky (write-in)

18 votes, 1.9%

Augustine of Hippo

17 votes, 1.8%

René Descartes

17 votes, 1.8%

Socrates (write-in)

16 votes, 1.7%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

15 votes, 1.6%

David Hume

14 votes, 1.5%

Martin Heidegger

13 votes, 1.4%

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José Ortega y Gasset

11 votes, 1.2%

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11 votes, 1.2%

Jesus (write-in)

10 votes, 1.1%

Hannah Arendt

9 votes, 1.0%

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9 votes, 1.0%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 0.9%

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8 votes, 0.9%

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

6 votes, 0.6%

Simone Weil (write-in)

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Aristotle (write-in)

6 votes, 0.6%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

5 votes, 0.5%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

Bertrand Russell (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

Slavoj Zizek (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

Roger Scruton

4 votes, 0.4%

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Carl Jung (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Kosov (write-in)

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Serb (write-in)

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Hypatia

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Buddha (write-in)

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Charles Darwin (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Eric Voegelin

2 votes, 0.2%

Maimonides (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Euclid (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Thomas Hobbes (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Sigmund Freud (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Francis Bacon (write-in)

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Ayn Rand (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Alan Watts (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Jacques Derrida (write-in)

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Michael Oakeshott

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John Dewey (write-in)

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Henri Bergson (write-in)

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Rene Guenon (write-in)

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George Berkeley (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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Albert Einstein (write-in)

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Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

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Edmund Husserl (write-in)

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Judith Butler (write-in)

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Niccoló Machiavelli (write-in)

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Paul Preciado (write-in)

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Max Stirner (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Joseph Campbell (write-in)

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Gottfried Leibniz (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Parmenides (write-in)

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George Santayana (write-in)

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Voltaire (write-in)

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Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

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Jeremy Bentham (write-in)

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Lucretius (write-in)

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B. F. Skinner (write-in)

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