Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) taught political science and philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Chicago. Widely acclaimed as a brilliant and original thinker, her works include Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Human Condition.

Hannah Arendt was the Author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, a three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

She was herself influenced by: Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Walter Benjamin, Socrates

Often quoted by Mattias Desmet who wrote the book The Psychology of Totalitarianism.