Philosopher · Twentieth century · Germany
Hannah Arendt
1906–1975
German Jewish thinker who fled the Nazis and became America's great theorist of totalitarianism. The Origins of Totalitarianism of 1951 traced the camps to imperialism and mass society. She lived 1906 to 1975.
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- Born
- 1906, Linden, near Hanover, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hannah Arendt
- Died
- 1975, New York, United States.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hannah Arendt
- School
- Political theory, in the classical tradition.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hannah Arendt
- Known for
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and the phrase the banality of evil.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hannah Arendt
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