Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was an influential German-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that ...
1. Chronology of Life and Works. The political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, the only child of secular Jews.
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