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Hannah Arendt

Also known as Johanna "Hannah" Arendt, Johanna "Hannah" Cohn Arendt, Hanna Arendt, Johanna Arendt, Hannah Arendt Blücher

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

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Hannah Arendt was a philosopher, historian, writer, and political scientist. She was born in Hanover and died in the Upper West Side of New York City. Her occupations included academic roles at Princeton University, Northwestern University, Wesleyan University, and the University of California, Berkeley. She held a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was influenced by Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Edmund Burke. She studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.

Arendt was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Academy for Language and Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She spoke German and English. Her notable works include *L'humaine condition* and *Den banala ondskan*. She was married to Günther Anders and Heinrich Blücher. She died of a myocardial infarction, which is classified as natural causes.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 14 October 1906
Died: 4 December 1975
Works: 293

Top works

Set Grote Klassieken – Arendt en Seneca
Den banala ondskan
Hannah Arendt / Heinrich Blücher
L'humaine condition
Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Active from: 1906
Active to: 1975

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 455
Total plays: 5,174

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
· 2020 · cited 17,419x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,420x
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,144x
Cancer statistics, 2022
· 2022 · cited 13,185x

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Quotes

“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
“Kein Mensch hat das Recht zu gehorchen.”
“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.”
“In a head-on clash between violence and power, the outcome is hardly in doubt. Nowhere is the self-defeating factor in the victory of violence over power more evident than in the use of terror to maintain domination, about whose weird successes and eventual failures we know perhaps more than any generation before us. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured.”

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Hannah Arendt, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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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