Quick Facts

• Born on October 14 1906
• Worked as a contributor for The New Yorker
• Best known for her accounts on the trial of Adolf Eichmann
• Died on December 4 1975

Life and Work

Hannah Arendt was a renowned political theorist and a German philsopher who engaged broadly with different aspects of the political world with an emphasis being placed on what power is and how authority is derived. Eventually she was forced to flee Germany and found herself as a resident in New York City. During her time in the United States she witnessed rebellions and riots from across the United States and in other countries like France which had been a reversal of the non-violent trend she saw after the Second World War which led to her essay "On Violence".

Selected Work by Author

On Violence (1970)

Selected Quote from the Work

"To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent."

Referenced Sources

Seminar Slideshow on Hannah Arendt

“Hannah Arendt.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Apr. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt.