Arendt

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1. Arendt - Noun

2. Arendt - Proper noun

Meaning

United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)

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[W]e have become a country in which many people, regardless of their race, are willing to believe lies if the lies feel right to them, and suit their ideological preferences. Hannah Arendt said this kind of thing is a prelude to totalitarianism. Rod Dreher

A few blocks away, a line was forming at the door of the German Historical Museum, where about the life and work of the German-American intellectual Hannah Arendt was opening. Source: Internet

Although Eichmann had played a major role in organizing the planned extermination of the European Jews, Arendt portrayed him as an uninspired bureaucrat who had only carried out his instructions. Source: Internet

Arendt initially suggested that Heidegger's behavior precipitated Husserl's death. Source: Internet

Arendt says that political freedom is historically opposed to sovereignty or will-power, since in ancient Greece and Rome, the concept of freedom was inseparable from performance, and did not arise as a conflict between the "will" and the "self." Source: Internet

Hannah Arendt labelled totalitarianism a new and extreme form of dictatorship involving "atomized, isolated individuals" in which ideology plays a leading role in defining how the entire society should be organized. Source: Internet

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