Hannah Arendt

Bio

(1906-1975) German-American political theorist, writer. Arendt lived in Manhattan. Educated in Germany in the 1920s, Arendt emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. Her lecturing and teaching credits are numerous. To list just a few, she was a Guggenheim fellow (1952-53), a visiting lecturer at Berkeley (1955), the first woman appointed full professor at Princeton (1959), visiting professor of government at Columbia (1960), professor at the U. of Chicago (1963-67), and university professor at the New School for Social Research. Her writings include “Origins of Totalitarianism” (1951), “The Human Condition” (1958), “Eichmann in Jerusalem” (1963), “On Revolution” (1963), “Men in Dark Times” (1968), “On Violence” (1969), and “Crises of the Republic” (1972). Arendt also served as research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations (1944-46) and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, in New York City (1949-1952).