Hannah Arendt
Noun
Meaning
United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)
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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.
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.
Hannah Arendt, "What is Freedom?", Between Past and Future: Eight exercises in political thought (New York: Penguin, 1993).
These were people who made the kinds of choices Hannah Arendt warned us about: "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
"Truth has a despotic character," Hannah Arendt in 1967.
“We call it the ‘basic income feeling,’” said Mr. Bohmeyer, who drew on the writings of psychologists, sociologists, economists and the philosopher Hannah Arendt to try to make sense of what he was hearing from recipients.