Person Detail: Hannah Arendt

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Full Name: Hannah Arendt | ||
Biography: (1906-1975) German-American political theorist, writer. Arendt lived in Manhattan. Educated in Germany in the 1920s, Arendt emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. Her lecturing and teaching credits are numerous. To list just a few, she was a Guggenheim fellow (1952-53), a visiting lecturer at Berkeley (1955), the first woman appointed full professor at Princeton (1959), visiting professor of government at Columbia (1960), professor at the U. of Chicago (1963-67), and university professor at the New School for Social Research. Her writings include "Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951), "The Human Condition" (1958), "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1963), "On Revolution" (1963), "Men in Dark Times" (1968), "On Violence" (1969), and "Crises of the Republic" (1972). Arendt also served as research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations (1944-46) and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, in New York City (1949-1952). |
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1949 |
New York County Arendt was Executive Director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, in New York City (1949-1952). |
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1906 |
(Unknown) County Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany in 1906. |
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1975 |
New York County Hannah Arendt died in New York, New York in 1975. |
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1975 |
Dutchess County Hannah Arendt is interred at Bard College, Annadale-on-the-Hudson, New York. |
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1951 |
(Unknown) County Origins of Totalitarianism |
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1958 |
(Unknown) County The Human Condition |
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1963 |
(Unknown) County Eichmann in Jerusalem |
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1963 |
(Unknown) County On Revolution |
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1968 |
(Unknown) County Men in Dark Times |
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1969 |
(Unknown) County On Violence |
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1972 |
(Unknown) County Crises of the Republic |
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1967 |
New York County Arendt taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1967 to 1975. |
