Hannah Arendt

Tags: Philosopher.

For the film see Hannah ArendtJohanna Hannah Arendt(/ˈɛərənt/ or /ˈɑrənt/; German: [ˈaːʀənt]; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist.

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birth date

1906-10-14

birth place

German Empire, Linden-Limmer

death date

1975-12-04

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Julia Kristeva, Giorgio Agamben, Seyla Benhabib, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Mario Kopić

influenced by

Socrates, Augustine of Hippo, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers, Bernard Lazare

main interest

Political philosophy, Philosophy of history, Modernity

notableIdea

Homo faber, Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Human Condition (book), Auctoritas

philosophicalSchool

Continental philosophy