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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Example Sentences

After serving in World War II, he became a writer and editor at Commentary, entering a coterie that included such authors and critics as Hannah Arendt and Irving Howe.

From The Wall Street Journal

In her much-misunderstood essay on Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt emphasized not his evil but his “sheer thoughtlessness.”

From Salon

The novel echoes thinkers like Hannah Arendt in pointing out how true-believing functionaries, the butt of ridicule in “normal” times, can help subsume all reason and decency to usurp a compliant and too-comfortable ruling class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hannah Arendt warned in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” that when the absurd becomes normal, thinking itself collapses.

From Salon

A professor of humanities at Columbia, Lilla is a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books who frequently writes about other intellectuals like Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin.

From Salon