Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
Author of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
About the Author
Born in Hanover, Germany, Hannah Arendt received her doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1928. A victim of naziism, she fled Germany in 1933 for France, where she helped with the resettlement of Jewish children in Palestine. In 1941, she emigrated to the United States. Ten years later she show more became an American citizen. Arendt held numerous positions in her new country---research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, chief editor of Schocken Books, and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. A visiting professor at several universities, including the University of California, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, and university professor on the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research, in 1959 she became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton. She also won a number of grants and fellowships. In 1967 she received the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung for her fine scholarly writing. Arendt was well equipped to write her superb The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) which David Riesman called "an achievement in historiography." In his view, "such an experience in understanding our times as this book provides is itself a social force not to be underestimated." Arendt's study of Adolf Eichmann at his trial---Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)---part of which appeared originally in The New Yorker, was a painfully searching investigation into what made the Nazi persecutor tick. In it, she states that the trial of this Nazi illustrates the "banality of evil." In 1968, she published Men in Dark Times, which includes essays on Hermann Broch, Walter Benjamin, and Bertolt Brecht (see Vol. 2), as well as an interesting characterization of Pope John XXIII. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Hannah Arendt
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism (1994) 236 copies, 4 reviews
Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 (1996) 34 copies
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie de l'existence ? Suivi de "L'Existentialisme français" (1990) 17 copies
Het waagstuk van de politiek over politieke leugens en burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid (2018) 11 copies
Wie ich einmal ohne Dich leben soll, mag ich mir nicht vorstellen: Briefwechsel mit den Freundinnen Charlotte Beradt,… (2017) 6 copies
Freedom and Revolution 2 copies
OASE #106 Table Settings/Tafelschikkingen : Reflections on Architecture with Hannah Arendt (2021) 2 copies
Hannah Arendt papers 2 copies
Wij zijn allemaal migranten : bevat tevens teksten van Immanuel Kant, Karl Popper, Hannah Arend & Jacques Derrida (2016) — Contributor — 2 copies
Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin 2 copies
Hannah Arendt. "Mir ist, als müsste ich mich selbst suchen gehen": Das private Adressbuch 1951-1975 (2007) 2 copies
Rede am 28. September 1959 bei der Entgegennahme des Lessing-Preises der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (1999) 2 copies
Literatura na Świecie 1985/06 (167) 2 copies
Hannah Arendt, ... das Böse ist immer extrem, aber niemals radikal..., Texte aus Briefen und dem Werk, 2 Audio-CD in… (2007) 1 copy
L'umanità in tempi bui. Lessing, Luxemburg, Giovanni XXIII, Jaspers, Blixen, Broch, Benjamin, Brecht, Gurian, Jarrell (2023) 1 copy
Arendt, Hannah Archive 1 copy
1986 1 copy
Spinoza 1 copy
Kaj je filosofija eksistence 1 copy
אייכמן בירושלים 1 copy
Hannah-Arendt-Packet 1 copy
Jewish Social Studies 1 copy
De mens 1 copy
Mbi dhunën 1 copy
Arendt Hannah 1 copy
Arendt - Grandangolo 1 copy
Hannah Arendt: Rätten till rättigheter : politiska texter i urval och med inledning av Anders Burman (2017) 1 copy
Rosa Luxemburg 1 copy
Freedom and politics 1 copy
Arendt 1 copy
Associated Works
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Volume I (1966) — Editor, some editions — 426 copies, 4 reviews
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle (1959) — Introduction, some editions — 221 copies, 3 reviews
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contributor — 205 copies, 1 review
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 88 copies
Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German Library) (1991) — Foreword, some editions — 78 copies
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributor — 76 copies, 1 review
Survivors, Victims and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust (1980) — Contributor — 19 copies, 1 review
The Great Philosophers, Vol. 2: The Original Thinkers- Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Anselm, Nicholas… (1966) — Editor, some editions — 18 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1906-10-14
- Date of death
- 1975-12-04
- Burial location
- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized 1951) - Country (for map)
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Linden, Hanover, Germany
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- Hanover, Germany
Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany
Marburg, Germany
Heidelberg, Germany
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA - Education
- University of Marburg
University of Heidelberg (Ph.D|1928) - Occupations
- political theorist
philosopher
historian - Relationships
- Heidegger, Martin (teacher)
Jaspers, Karl (teacher)
Benjamin, Walter (friend)
Jarrell, Randall (friend)
Fittko, Lisa (friend)
Anders, Günther (1st husband, 1929-37) (show all 9)
Blücher, Heinrich (2nd husband)
Young-Bruehl, Elizabeth (biographer, student)
Beradt, Charlotte (friend, executrix) - Organizations
- Aufbau
Partisan Review
Princeton University
The New School - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1964)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1969)
Sigmund Freud Prize (1967)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1962)
Sonning Prize (1975)
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Statistics
- Works
- 208
- Also by
- 21
- Members
- 22,370
- Popularity
- #950
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 210
- ISBNs
- 935
- Languages
- 32
- Favorited
- 65