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A Short Biography of Hannah Arendt

Author Name:

Hannah Arendt

Born As:

Hannah Arendt

Other Names:

Hannah Arendt

Born:

14 Oct 1906

Died:

4 Dec 1975




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Historian, political scientist and social philosopher                          
Selected works:

Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation - 1929
The Origins of Totalitarianism - 1951
Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston - 1958
The Human Condition - 1958
Die ungarische Revolution und der totalitäre Imperialismus - 1958
Between Past and Future: Eight exercises in political thought - 1954, Reissued with additional text in 1968
On Revolution - 1962
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - 1963
Men in Dark Times - 1968
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution - 1969

"Civil Disobedience" originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker. Versions of the other essays originally appeared in The New York Review of Books.

The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman - 1978
Life of the Mind - 1978
Love and Saint Augustine Edited with an Interpretive Essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Scott. Chicago - 1996/1998
Responsibility and Judgment. Edited with an introduction by Jerome Kohn - 2003.
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism. Edited by Jerome Kohn - 2005.
On Violence. Harvest Books. - 1970
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy. Edited and with an Interpretive Essay by Ronald Beiner - 1992
Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence, 1926–1969 Edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber. - 1992
Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968. Edited by Lotte Kohler, translated by Peter Constantine. - 2000
Letters, 1925-1975/Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Edited by Ursula Ludz, translated Andrew Shields. - 2004
The Promise of Politics. Edited and with an Introduction by Jerome Kohn - 2005
Arendt und Benjamin: Texte, Briefe, Dokumente. Edited by Detlev Schöttker and Erdmut Wizisla. - 2006
The Jewish Writings. Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman - 2007 Rezension.                          
Husband Günther Stern, later known as Günther Anders in 1929. Divorced 1937.