Arendt, Hannah

Arendt, Hannah
(1906–1975)
Political philosopher. Born in Hanover into a Jewish family, Arendt studied in the German existentialist tradition of Jaspers and Heidegger . She moved to Paris in 1933, and escaped the Nazi occupation to America in 1940. Her first major work was The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), and other books include On Revolution (1963) and On Violence (1970).

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