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(âr′ənt, 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)

(Biography) 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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Arendt - United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)

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The lives of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem were variations on the same fate.

A Shared Debt: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

La relacion entre la filosofia y la politica recorre transversalmente toda la obra de Hannah Arendt.

Di Pego, Anabella: Politica y Filosofia en Hannah Arendt. El camino desde la comprension hacia el juicio

Arendt cree que la politica es el imperio de la opinion y no de la verdad.

Verdad y posverdad en politica: reflexiones a partir de Hannah Arendt

Arendt may strike the reader as a curious choice for a discussion of matter: not only has she been conspicuously absent from geographical discussions of materiality (and even space) but also she is known as a strong critic of materialism and science.

Re-reading worldliness: Hannah Arendt and the question of matter

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt is a film that strains against sentimentality--a quality of character that the political theorist herself criticized.

Vita Activa: The Spirit Of Hannah Arendt

In 1961, German-born philosopher Hannah Arendt attended the trial of Nazi Henchman Adolph Eichmann.

"TO THINK WHAT WE ARE DOING": A Challenge of Our Time for the School of Education

Para comprender la pluralidad en Arendt, exige ponerla en el contexto de la emergencia del mundo moderno y en la vita activa, expresion con la que Arendt designa lo que para ella son las tres actividades fundamentales de la vida del hombre en la tierra: labor, trabajo y accion.

Mies van der Rohe's courtyard houses: a modern garden. An interpretation based on the concept of plurality and "the third way"/ Las casas patio de Mies van der Rohe: un jardin de la modernidad. Una lectura desde el concepto de pluralidad y desde la tercera naturaleza/As casas-patio de Mies van der Rohe: um jardim da modernidade. Uma leitura a partir do conceito de pluralidade e da terceira natureza

Tal vez sea la complejidad del tema lo que hace de la violencia una cuestion tan atrac tiva para filosofos de todos los tiempos, siendo el presente, de manera indudable, la etapa mas propicia para volver a revisar algunas de las destacadas aportaciones de la llamada filosofi a contemporanea: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, entre otros.

Richard J. Bernstein (2015), Violencia. Pensar sin barandillas, Barcelona, Gedisa, 288 pp

In The Human Condition, Arendt argues that "the emergence of the social realm, which is neither public nor private, strictly speaking, is a relatively new phenomenon whose origin coincides with the emergence of the modern age," (1) and that the emergence of society,

From ecclesiastical to political economy: the rise of the social

Hannah Arendt was on her way to lunch with her mother Martha when a Berlin policeman arrested her and took her to the presidium at Alexanderplatz.

Pariah: can Hannah Arendt help us rethink our global refugee crisis?

Beginning with Moses Mendelssohn (chapter one) and ending with Hannah Arendt, he lays out "the emergence of a liberal Jewish ethos" (6) as he travels through common stops along the way: Wissenschaft des Judentums, Leopold Zunz, Heinrich Heine, and Heinrich Graetz (chapter two), Abraham Geiger (chapter three), and Hermann Cohen (chapter four).

The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation

According to Matt Hahn, Arendt thinks that the emphasis on poverty eliminates the primacy of freedom for politics.