Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
	Mural of Hannah Arendt in Hanover, by graffitos BeneR1 and koarts, based on a photograph by Käthe Fürst
Born	14 October 1906; Linden, Prussian Hanover, German Empire; (present-day Hanover, Germany)
Dee'd	4 December 1975 (aged 69); New York Ceety, Unitit States
Naitionality	German (till 1937); Stateless; Unitit States (frae 1951);
Alma mater	Varsity o Marburg; Varsity o Heidelberg; (PhD, 1929);
Era	20t-century philosophy
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Continental philosophy; Exeestential phenomenology; Philosophy o life; Republicanism;
Main interests	Poleetical theory, modrenity, philosophy o history
Notable ideas	Homo faber, animal laborans; the labour–wirk distinction; the banality o evil; distinction atween vita activa an vita contemplativa; praxis as the heichest level o the vita activa; auctoritas, natality;
	Influences Socrates, Bernard Lazare, Saint Augustine, Kant, Heidegger, Jaspers, Benjamin;
	Influenced Giorgio Agamben, Seyla Benhabib, Giannina Braschi, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Mario Kopić, Julia Kristeva, Adriana Cavarero;
Wabsteid
	www.hannaharendtcenter.org

Johanna "Hannah" Arendt^[5] (German: [ˈaːʀənt];^[6] 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) wis a German-born Jewish American poleetical theorist. Tho aft descrieved as a philsopher, she rejectit that label on the grunds that philosophy is concerned wi "man in the singular" an insteid descrieved hersel as a poleetical theorist acause her wark centres on the fact that "men, nae Man, live on the yird an inhabit the warld."^[7]

She escaped Europe durin the Holocaust, becomin an American ceetizen. Her warks deal wi the naitur o pouer an the subjects o politics, direct democracy, authority, an totalitarianism. The Hannah Arendt Prize is cried in her honour.

References

↑ Wayne Allen, "Hannah Arendt: Existential Phenomenology and Political Freedom", Philosophy & Social Criticism, July 1982, 9(2), pp. 170–190.
↑ Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality, Springer, 1989, p. 119; Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative, University of Toronto Press, 2001, p. 48.
↑ Fry, Karin, "Arendt, Hannah" in Women-philosophers.com.
↑ "Arendt" entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Section 4
↑ Kelsey Wood (Pulaski Technical College). "Hannah Arendt bio at Literary Encyclopedia". Litencyc.com. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ "Arendt". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
↑ Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998.

[1] Wayne Allen, "Hannah Arendt: Existential Phenomenology and Political Freedom", Philosophy & Social Criticism, July 1982, 9(2), pp. 170–190.

[2] Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality, Springer, 1989, p. 119; Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative, University of Toronto Press, 2001, p. 48.

[women-philosophers.com-3] Fry, Karin, "Arendt, Hannah" in Women-philosophers.com.

[4] "Arendt" entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Section 4

[5] Kelsey Wood (Pulaski Technical College). "Hannah Arendt bio at Literary Encyclopedia". Litencyc.com. Retrieved 24 September 2012.

[6] "Arendt". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

[7] Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998.

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