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Arendt

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A·rendt  (ârnt, är-), Hannah 1906-1975.
German-born American historian and political theorist whose major published works include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and On Revolution (1963).

Arendt [ˈɛərənt]
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(Biographies / Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) F, USnational of birth: German, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Hannah. 1906-75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)
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Noun1.Arendt - United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)


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32) Arendt renders the word as 'officialese' and nothing more.
Playing Jaspers to Arendt, Lepenies ends his rambling and riveting book with refreshing praise for "small Holocaust monuments" that eschew the brutal aesthetic politics of the ever larger ones.
Since the late 19th century some of the fiercest and most eloquent critics of Israel and Zionism have been Jewish thinkers including such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and Leon Trotsky.
 
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