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

Hannah Arendt controversially argued that pity is an “all-devouring passion” that only feeds on affliction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

“I’m a firm believer in what Hannah Arendt says: Revolutions are impossible before they happen and inevitable after they happen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Hannah Arendt wrote that fascism wouldn’t have developed the way it did without the Dreyfus affair, and briefly mentioned that Morès’ antisemitic activities shaped the way that unfolded.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

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 • Nov. 1, 2025

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