Arendt. 126-7, Conversations '''Hannah Arendt''' ([[October 14]], [[1906]] – [[December 4]], [[1975]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[political theorist]]. She has often been described as a [[philosopher]], although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."
==Biography==
Her final book, ''The Life of the Mind'' was incomplete when she died, but is still widely read in its current form.
==To live or die==
Eugene McCarraher, wrote in 2006:
:"On a sunny March morning in 1962, a taxi bearing Hannah Arendt collided with a truck as it sped across Central Park. Awakening in the ambulance, Arendt moved her limbs, rolled her eyes, and tested her memory by recalling decades, stanzas of poetry, and telephone numbers. As she later described the episode to her close friend Mary McCarthy, "for a fleeting moment I had the feeling that it was up to me whether I wanted to live or die." While she "did not think that death was terrible," she also thought that "life was quite beautiful and that I rather like it."
:"Today, Arendt's brush with the Reaper might become another saccharine epiphany, denatured and packaged for the burgeoning market in "uplift" and "inspiration." Arendt herself would surely recoil from much of our "life-affirming" drivel. If it isn't advertising—"smell the roses" in our flower shop, "appreciate the little things" with help from our investment firm—it's an unwitting invitation to forget the larger concerns of politics, philosophy, and religion. Having spent her life pondering the carnage and futility of the 20th, most murderous of centuries, and having escaped calamities far worse than an auto wreck, Arendt might well admonish us that beauty is always bound up with the broader forces of history, whose evasion and neglect will inevitably rob the world of its deepest charms....
:(Christianity Today, March/April 2006)
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==Selected works==
*Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation (1929)
*[[The Origins of Totalitarianism]] (1951)
*[[Rahel Varnhagen]]: The Life of a Jewish Woman (1958)
*[[The Human Condition (book)|The Human Condition]] (1958)
*Between Past and Future (1961)
*On Revolution (1963)
*[[Eichmann in Jerusalem]]: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
*Men in Dark Times (1968)
*Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution (1969)<br>"Civil Disobedience" originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in ''The New Yorker''. Versions of the other essays originally appeared in ''The New York Review of Books''.
*The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age; Edited by Ron H. Feldman (1978)
*Life of the Mind (1978)
==Further reading==
* [[Elisabeth Young-Bruehl|Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth]], ''Hannah Arendt : For Love of the World'', Yale University Press (1982). ISBN 0300026609. (Paperback reprint edition, September 10, 1983, ISBN 0300030991; Second edition October 11, 2004 ISBN 0300105886.)
* Villa, Dana ed., ''The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt'', Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN-13: 9780521645713.
==See also==
* [[Erich Heller]]
==External links==
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*''[http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/arendt.htm Hannah Arendt - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]''
*The American [[Library of congress|Library of Congress]] has [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/special.html The Role of Experience in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought: Three Essays] by Jerome Kohn, Director, [http://www.newschool.edu/gf/centers/research-centers.htm#Arendt Hannah Arendt Center], New School University. With link to Arendt's [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/mharendtFolder05.html papers].
*''[http://www.egs.edu/resources/hannaharendt.html European Graduate School - Hannah Arendt]''
*''[http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/arendt.html Hannah Arendt at Jewish Virtual Library]''
*[http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2006/002/8.32.html Centenary Retrospective in ''Christianity Today'' magazine]
*[http://www.fembio.org/women-from/hannover/hannah-arendt.shtml Hannah Arendt: Biography at FemBio]
*[http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/br/9911/plotz.html "Thinking Out Loud"] Review of a book of essays on Arendt, in [[Lingua Franca]].
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[[Hannah Arendt]]'s insights are also crucial here: she emphasized the distinction between political power and the mere exercise of (social) violence: organizations run by direct non-political authority - by an order of command that is not politically grounded authority (Army, Church, school) - represent examples of violence (Gewalt), not of political Power in the strict sense of the term.
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''Other Languages''
*[http://dogma.free.fr/txt/AKM-HannahArendt.htm Article on Hannah Arendt (in French)]
*[http://www.geocities.com/arnaldogoncalves_pt/arendt.html Profile, collection of articles, and quotations on Hannah Arendt (in Portuguese)]
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