Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born US philosopher, political theorist and historian. She fled the Nazis in 1940 and settled in the United States of America. She was a student of Martin Heidegger. She established her reputation as a leading political thinker and held academic positions and also served as editor-in-chief at Schocken Books.While subjects of her works tend to be theoretical, they are widely read outside of strictly academic circles. Her one of the first works proposes that Nazism and Stalinism had common roots. Most famous of her works are the Origins of Totalitarianism (1951, the Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and On Violence (1970).
Wisdom & Quotes
- Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
- Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.
- Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
Samuel Beckett