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Hannah Arendt
Author · 65 books
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

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Books

On Violence book cover

On Violence

1970

Questions de philosophie morale book cover

Questions de philosophie morale

2024

The Jew as Pariah book cover

The Jew as Pariah

Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age

1978

Eichmann in Jerusalem book cover

Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

1963

Love and Saint Augustine book cover

Love and Saint Augustine

1928

The Origins of Totalitarianism book cover

The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951

Antisemitism book cover

Antisemitism

Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism

1948

Wir Flüchtlinge book cover

Wir Flüchtlinge

1943

Die Freiheit, frei zu sein book cover

Die Freiheit, frei zu sein

1967

What Remains book cover

What Remains

The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

2024

Verità e politica-La conquista dello spazio e la statura dell'uomo book cover

Verità e politica-La conquista dello spazio e la statura dell'uomo

1995

La nature du totalitarisme book cover

La nature du totalitarisme

1990

Within Four Walls book cover

Within Four Walls

The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968

1996

The Life of the Mind book cover

The Life of the Mind

1971

Between Friends book cover

Between Friends

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975

1995

The Promise of Politics book cover

The Promise of Politics

2005

On Humanity in Dark Times book cover

On Humanity in Dark Times

Thoughts about Lessing

2025

Letters, 1925-1975 book cover

Letters, 1925-1975

1998

Hannah Arendt book cover

Hannah Arendt

2013

La pluralidad del mundo book cover

La pluralidad del mundo

2019

En el presente. Ensayos políticos book cover

En el presente. Ensayos políticos

2000

De retsløse og de ydmygede book cover

De retsløse og de ydmygede

2017

Kamu Vicdanına Çağrı book cover

Kamu Vicdanına Çağrı

Sivil İtaatsizlik

1997

The Life of the Mind, Volume Two book cover

The Life of the Mind, Volume Two

Willing

1978

La mentira en política book cover

La mentira en política

2022

Between Past and Future book cover

Between Past and Future

1961

Verdade e política book cover

Verdade e política

1968

La Crise de l'éducation book cover

La Crise de l'éducation

2007

Rahel Varnhagen book cover

Rahel Varnhagen

The Life of a Jewish Woman

1958

Du mensonge à la violence book cover

Du mensonge à la violence

Essais de politique contemporaine

1972

On Revolution book cover

On Revolution

1956

Responsabilidad personal y colectiva book cover

Responsabilidad personal y colectiva

2020

Crises of the Republic book cover

Crises of the Republic

Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

1970

Thinking Without a Banister book cover

Thinking Without a Banister

Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975

2006

Von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten. Rede über Lessing book cover

Von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten. Rede über Lessing

1960

حياة العقل الجزء الثاني book cover

حياة العقل الجزء الثاني

الإرادة

2016

Men In Dark Times book cover

Men In Dark Times

1970

Imperialism book cover

Imperialism

Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951

¿Qué es la política? book cover

¿Qué es la política?

1993

Sokrates book cover

Sokrates

Apologie der Pluralität

1999

Poemas book cover

Poemas

2017

Was heißt persönliche Verantwortung in einer Diktatur? book cover

Was heißt persönliche Verantwortung in einer Diktatur?

2018

On Lying and Politics book cover

On Lying and Politics

A Library of America Special Publication

2022

Totalitarianism book cover

Totalitarianism

Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism

1968

The Portable Hannah Arendt book cover

The Portable Hannah Arendt

2000

Reflections on Literature and Culture book cover

Reflections on Literature and Culture

2007

Alcune questioni di filosofia morale book cover

Alcune questioni di filosofia morale

2006

On Civil Disobedience book cover

On Civil Disobedience

2024

Disobbedienza civile book cover

Disobbedienza civile

1969

La philosophie de l'existence et autres essais book cover

La philosophie de l'existence et autres essais

1990

Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954 book cover

Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954

Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism

1994

انقلاب مجارستان book cover

انقلاب مجارستان

مقاومت مردمی علیه توتالیتاریسم

2002

Correspondence, 1926-1969 book cover

Correspondence, 1926-1969

1985

الحب عند أوغسطين book cover

الحب عند أوغسطين

2021

The Jewish Writings book cover

The Jewish Writings

2007

The Life of the Mind, Volume One book cover

The Life of the Mind, Volume One

Thinking

1971

The Human Condition book cover

The Human Condition

1958

Thinking and Moral Considerations book cover

Thinking and Moral Considerations

A Lecture

1383

Responsibility and Judgment book cover

Responsibility and Judgment

2003

Nosotros, refugiados book cover

Nosotros, refugiados

2024

Le Système totalitaire book cover

Le Système totalitaire

Les Origines du totalitarisme - Tome 3

2025

Reflections on Little Rock

2025

Eichmann and the Holocaust book cover

Eichmann and the Holocaust

2005

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy book cover

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

1982

حياة العقل الجزء الاول book cover

حياة العقل الجزء الاول

التفكير

2016

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