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Hannah Arendt

1906 - 1975

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Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power, fame, and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition, and totalitarianism. She is also remembered for the controversy surrounding the trial of Adolf Eichmann, for her attempt to explain how ordinary people become actors in totalitarian systems, which was considered by some an apologia, and for the phrase "the banality of evil." Her name appears in the names of journals, schools, scholarly prizes, humanitarian prizes, think-tanks, and streets; appears on stamps and monuments; and is attached to other cultural and institutional markers that commemorate her thought. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hannah Arendt is the 54th most popular philosopher (down from 50th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Philosopher.

Hannah Arendt is most famous for her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hannah Arendt ranks 54 out of 1,267. Before her are David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anaxagoras, John Amos Comenius, Swami Vivekananda, and Michel Foucault. After her are Mikhail Bakunin, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Karl Popper, Ramakrishna, and Zeno of Elea.

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Among people born in 1906, Hannah Arendt ranks 5. Before her are Leonid Brezhnev, Puyi, Adolf Eichmann, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. After her are Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1975, Hannah Arendt ranks 4. Before her are Haile Selassie, Chiang Kai-shek, and Francisco Franco. After her are Dmitri Shostakovich, Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, and Otto Skorzeny.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hannah Arendt ranks 62 out of 7,253. Before her are Adolf Eichmann (1906), Georg Ohm (1789), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Erwin Rommel (1891), Jacques Offenbach (1819), and Heinrich Hertz (1857). After her are Eva Braun (1912), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Konrad Adenauer (1876), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hannah Arendt ranks 5. Before her are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), and Martin Heidegger (1889). After her are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Jürgen Habermas (1929).

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