Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist and philosopher who lived from 1906 to 1975 and developed influential ideas about power, politics, and human action. Her work remains important for understanding political philosophy and how societies organize themselves.
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- 14 October 1906
- Died
- 4 December 1975
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- 293
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Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hannah+Arendt">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power, fame, and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition, and totalitarianism. She is also remembered for the controversy surrounding the trial of Adolf Eichmann, for her attempt to explain how ordinary people become actors in totalitarian systems, which was considered by some an apologia, and for the phrase "the banality of evil". Her name appears in the names of journals, schools, scholarly prizes, humanitarian prizes, think-tanks, and streets; appears on stamps and monuments; and is attached to other cultural and institutional markers that commemorate her thought.
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