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Hannah Arendt was born in 1906. She was a student of Martin Heidegger during the academic year 1924–25. Then, after a semester as a student of Edmund Husserl in Freiburg, she went to Heidelberg to work with Karl Jaspers. She completed her dissertation on Augustine’s concept of love with Jaspers in 1929. In 1933, she left Germany to escape persecution as a Jew and found a temporary home in Paris, working for Jewish causes, before moving to the United States in 1941. She died in 1975. She is perhaps the foremost representative of political theory within the phenomenological movement broadly conceived. Her main publications were The rigins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), On Revolution (1963), and the posthumously published and, unfortunately, incomplete Life of the Mind (1978). Arendt was also a brilliant essayist. Her most important essays were collected in Between Past and Future (1968), Crises of the Republic (1972), and the posthumous Essays in Understanding (1993). Although Arendt never wavered in her admiration of Jaspers, who figured prominently in Men in Dark Times, philosophically her debt to Heidegger is greater.
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Bernasconi, R. (2002). Hannah Arendt, Phenomenology and Political Theory. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology World-Wide. Analecta Husserliana, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0473-2_73
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