Arendt

American  

[air-uhnt, ahr-] / ˈɛər ənt, ˈɑr- /

noun

1. Hannah, 1906–75, U.S. author, political scientist, and teacher, born in Germany.

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Arendt British  

/ ˈɛərənt /

noun

1. Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)

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Arendt

Before Hannah Arendt defined the nature of totalitarian evil, she worked against it at the risk of her own safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

On the passenger list of the Guiné, which sailed from Lisbon for New York on May 10, 1941, Heinrich Blücher appeared as a 41-year-old author and Hannah Arendt simply as his 34-year-old wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In offices devoted to rescue and restitution, Arendt had seen that a human world does not sustain itself: It depends on recognized claims and agreements someone is willing to keep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Arendt would later write with matchless severity about statelessness and the “right to have rights”; here those abstractions acquire a prehistory in German-Jewish arrangements that proved disastrously brittle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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