Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt from a 1988 German stamp among the Women in German history series
Born	14 October 1906 Linden, German Empire(present-day Hanover, Germany)
Died	4 December 1975 (aged 69) New York City
Religion	Agnostic[1]
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Political theory, modernity,philosophy of history
Notable ideas	Homo faber, animal laborans, the labor–work distinction,banality of evil, vita activa andvita contemplativa, praxis as the highest level of the vita activa,[2] auctoritas, natality[3]

Johanna "Hannah" Arendt^[4] (/ˈɛərənt/ or /ˈɑrənt/; German: [ˈaːʀənt]; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist. Though often described as a philosopher, she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."^[5] Her works deal with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. The Hannah Arendt Prize is named in her honor./.../