Hannah Arendt
German-American philosopher and political theorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hannah Arendt was a German-born American historian and political philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born to a Jewish family in Linden in 1906. When she was three, her family moved to the East Prussian capital of Königsberg for her father's health care. Paul Arendt had contracted syphilis in his youth, but was thought to be in remission when Arendt was born. He died when she was seven. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family, her mother being an ardent Social Democrat. After completing secondary education in Berlin, Arendt studied at the University of Marburg under Martin Heidegger, with whom she had a four-year affair. She obtained her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Her dissertation was entitled Love and Saint Augustine and her supervisor was the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers.
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Hannah Arendt is affiliated with the following schools:
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Marburg
- Heidelberg University
- University of Zurich
- University of Freiburg
- Wesleyan University
- University of Warsaw
- University of Münster
- Delhi University
- University of Chicago
- University of Milan
- Columbia University
- University of Turin
- University of Oxford
- University of Tokyo
- Kiel University
- University of Geneva
- Brooklyn College
- University of Tehran
- University of Vienna
- University of Tübingen
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Barcelona
- University of Melbourne
- University of Helsinki
- Yale University
- University of Göttingen
- Northwestern University
- University of Würzburg
- Princeton University
- University of Florence
- University of Auckland
- University of Hamburg
- Trinity College Dublin
- University of Lisbon
- Complutense University of Madrid
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