About Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist (1906–1975) who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. A student of Heidegger and Jaspers, Arendt developed original accounts of totalitarianism, political action, revolution, and the nature of evil through the Eichmann trial. Her work resists simple political categorisation — she challenged both the left and the liberal consensus — and remains essential for understanding the 20th century as a political catastrophe.
Books by Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
The origin of one of the twentieth century's most important and contested ideas: the 'banality of evil.' Reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi administrator of deportations, Arendt argued that he was driven…
Read about this book →The Human Condition
A deep work on action, labor, work, public life, and the meaning of political freedom.
Read about this book →The Origins of Totalitarianism
A major work for understanding totalitarianism, ideology, mass society, antisemitism, imperialism, and terror.
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