Biographie de Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906. She studied at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg and received her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, where she studied under Karl Jaspers. In 1933 she fled from Germany and went to France, where she worked for the immigration of Jewish refugee children into Palestine. In 1941 she went to the United States and became an American citizen ten years later.
She was a research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, chief editor of Schocken Books, executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City, a visiting professor at the universities of California (Berkeley), Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and Chicago, and university professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951, and won the annual Arts and Letters Grant of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954.
She gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen in 1973 and received Denmark's Sonning Prize in 1975. Among Hannah Arendt's most important works are The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Between Past and Future : Eight Exercises in Political Thought, On Revolution, Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil, Men in Dark Times, Crises of the Republic, and The Life of the Mind.
Hannah Arendt died in December 1975. Jerome Kohn, who was Hannah Arendt's last teaching and research assistant, is the Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the New School for Social Research. His editions of Hannah Arendt's unpublished and uncollected writings include Essays in Understanding 193o-19S4, Responsibility and Judgment, The Promise of Politics, and, with Ron Feldman, The Jewish Writings of Hannah Arendt.
