Hannah Arendt
German-American philosopher and political theorist
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Why Is Hannah Arendt Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hannah Arendt was a German-born American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theoristss of the 20th century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. In the popular mind she is best remembered for the controversy surrounding the trial of Adolf Eichmann, 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." She is commemorated by institutions and journals devoted to her thinking, the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thinking, and on stamps, street names and schools, amongst other things.
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What Schools Are Affiliated With Hannah Arendt?
Hannah Arendt is affiliated with the following schools:
- University of Oxford
- University of Melbourne
- Northwestern University
- Kiel University
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Turin
- Columbia University
- University of Warsaw
- University of Vienna
- University of Helsinki
- University of Lisbon
- Yale University
- University of Milan
- Complutense University of Madrid
- University of Tübingen
- University of Geneva
- University of Auckland
- University of Würzburg
- Wesleyan University
- University of Zurich
- Heidelberg University
- Delhi University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Göttingen
- University of Marburg
- Université Paris Cité
- University of Tokyo
- Princeton University
- University of Chicago
- University of Hamburg
- Trinity College Dublin
- University of Münster
- University of Freiburg
- Brooklyn College
- University of Florence
- University of Barcelona
- University of Tehran
What Are Hannah Arendt's Academic Contributions?
Hannah Arendt has made the following academic contributions:
