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'''Hannah Arendt''' was a German-born American political theorist who is one of the most influential of the political philosophers of the twentieth century. She is known for the studies of the totalitarianism and the nature of the evil.

== Early Life and Education ==
Arendt was born in 1906 in Linden near Hanover in Germany. She was of the Jewish descent and the family was assimilated.

She studied at the University of Marburg with Martin Heidegger and at the University of Heidelberg with Karl Jaspers. She took her doctorate in 1929.

She fled from the Nazi persecution in 1933 and lived in Paris. She emigrated to the United States in 1941.

== The Totalitarianism and the Evil ==
Arendt published the book The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. The book analyses the rise of the Nazi and the Stalinist regimes.

She argued that the totalitarianism is a new form of the government. The totalitarian regimes seek the total domination of the society.

She reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. The report was published as Eichmann in Jerusalem.

She introduced the concept of the banality of the evil. The concept holds that the great evil can be committed by the ordinary people who do not think.

== The Political Theory ==
Arendt published the book The Human Condition in 1958. The book distinguishes the labour and the work and the action.

She emphasised the importance of the public sphere and the political action. She argued that the freedom is realised in the participation in the public life.

She published the book On Revolution and Between Past and Future. The works explore the nature of the revolution and the political thought.

She taught at the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research. She was the first woman to teach at the Princeton University.

== The Legacy ==
Arendt died in 1975 in New York. She was one of the most important of the political thinkers of the twentieth century.

Her work continues to be studied and debated. The concepts of the totalitarianism and the banality of the evil remain central to the political thought.

She received the honours from the institutions in the United States and Germany. The institutions are named in her honour.

She is regarded as a defender of the political freedom and the public life. Her influence extends across the philosophy and the political science.

== The Origins of Totalitarianism ==
Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. The book analyses the Nazi and the Stalinist regimes.

She argued that the totalitarianism is a new form of the government. The regimes seek the total domination.

The book established her reputation as a political thinker.

== The Banality of Evil ==
Arendt reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. The report was published as Eichmann in Jerusalem.

She introduced the concept of the banality of the evil. The concept holds that the great evil can be committed by the ordinary people.

The report caused the controversy among the Jewish community.

== The Human Condition ==
Arendt published The Human Condition in 1958. The book distinguishes the labour and the work and the action.

She emphasised the importance of the public sphere. She argued that the freedom is realised in the public life.

The book is regarded as one of the most important of the political works.

== The Political Thought ==
Arendt published On Revolution in 1963. The book studies the nature of the revolution.

She argued that the revolution should establish the freedom and the public participation. She contrasted the American and the French revolutions.

She taught at the University of Chicago and the New School.

== The Early Life ==
Arendt studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. She took her doctorate in 1929.

She fled from the Nazi persecution in 1933. She lived in Paris and emigrated to the United States.

She worked for the Jewish organisations and the Zionist movement.

== The Legacy ==
Arendt died in 1975 in New York. She was one of the most important of the political thinkers.

Her work continues to be studied and debated. The concepts remain central to the political thought.

She received the honours from the institutions in the United States and Germany.

== The Personal Life ==
Arendt married Günther Stern in 1929 and later Heinrich Blücher. The second marriage lasted until his death.

She was the friend and the correspondent of the many thinkers. The letters are an important record.

She died in 1975 and was remembered as a defender of the political freedom.

== See also ==
* Political theory
* Totalitarianism
* Banality of evil
* Public sphere

== References ==

<ref name="r1">Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.</ref>
<ref name="r2">Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.</ref>
<ref name="r3">Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. New York: Viking, 1963.</ref>
<ref name="r4">Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.</ref>

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