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(1906-10-14) Linden, Prussian Hanover, German Empire (present-day Hanover, Germany)
Dee'd	4 December 1975(1975-12-04) (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[1] Philosophy o life[2] 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[3] auctoritas, natality[4]
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.

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.
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.