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Category:	Modern Literature
Name:	Hannah Arendt - Marxist Series A Question of Justice
Birth Year:	1906
Death Year:	1975
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography - Marxist Series Blog Hannah Arendt! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Historian and political philosopher. She received her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg. Her works include Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), and Eichmann in Jerusalem, a Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). In Arendt's analysis, genocide is seen as an action against the human status and an attack against human diversity. Born of secular Jewish parents in Hanover and raised in Konigsberg (the hometown of her admired precursor Immanuel Kant) and Berlin, Arendt studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger at the University of Marburg. She appears to have had a short romantic relationship with Heidegger, an entanglement that has occasioned much criticism due to his later Nazi sympathies. After breaking off the relationship, Arendt moved to Heidelberg to write a dissertation on the concept of love in the thought of St. Augustine, under the direction of the existentialist philosopher-psychologist Karl Jaspers. The dissertation was published in 1929, but Arendt was prevented from habilitating (writing a second dissertation that would earn her permission to teach in German universities) in 1933 because she was a Jew, and thereupon fled Germany for Paris, where she met and befriended the literary critic and Marxist mystic Walter Benjamin. While in France, Arendt worked to support and aid Jewish refugees. However, with the German invasion and occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Hannah Arendt had to flee from France. In 1940, she married the German poet and philosopher Heinrich Blucher. Hannah Arendt emigrated with her husband and her mother to the United States with the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry. She then became active in the German-Jewish community in New York and wrote for the weekly Aufbau. After World War II, she had a reconciliation of sorts with Heidegger, and testified on his behalf in a German denazification hearing. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. In her reporting of the Eichmann trial for The New Yorker, which evolved into the book Eichmann in Jerusalem, she raised the question whether evil is radical or simply a function of banality - of the failure of good or just ordinary people to take risks. She also wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism, which attempted to trace the roots of communism and fascism and their link to anti-semitism. This book was controversial because it compared two subjects that many scholars believed were, by definition, opposites. On her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt was buried at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where her husband taught for many years. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Hannah Arendt.]
	In 1949 Arendt used this well-worn affidavit of identity "in lieu of a passport, which I, a stateless person, cannot obtain at present." Also seen here is Arendt's draft of the introduction to the third edition of Origins Of Totalitarianism, her first major book. [Adapted from Library of Congress] The Great Books: Hannah Arendt Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Hannah Arendt. For rare and hard to find titles we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Hannah Arendt. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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