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Hannah Arendt

1906–1975
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture)

Major works:
Woman in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Human Condition • Eichmann in Jerusalem • On Revolution

“No twentieth-century philosopher and political thinker has at the present time as wide an echo.”—Walter Laqueur

“Hannah Arendt . . . was a prolific and unclassifiable thinker, a political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist of unmatched range and rigor.”—A. O. Scott, The New York Times

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