hannah arendt

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Definition of hannah arendt in English English dictionary

a US political philosopher, writer, and teacher, who was born in Germany (1906-75). born Oct. 14, 1906, Hannover, Ger. died Dec. 4, 1975, New York, N.Y., U.S. German-born U.S. political theorist. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. Forced to flee the Nazis in 1933, she became a social worker in Paris and then fled again, to New York, in 1941. Her major work, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), traced totalitarianism to 19th-century anti-Semitism, imperialism, and the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. She taught at the University of Chicago (1963-67) and thereafter at the New School for Social Research. Her controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) suggested that Adolf Eichmann, the SS leader who was chiefly responsible for the extermination of the Jews, was a banal figure rather than a demonic one

Hyphenation

Han·nah Ar·endt

Turkish pronunciation

hänı erînt

Pronunciation

/ˈhanə ˈerənt/ /ˈhænə ˈɛrɪnt/