When Germany invaded France that year she was detained by the French as an alien. Divorcing Stern that year, she then married Heinrich Blücher in 1940. She was stripped of her German citizenship in 1937. There she worked for Youth Aliyah, assisting young Jews to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. On release, she fled Germany, living in Czechoslovakia and Switzerland before settling in Paris. In 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power, Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal research into antisemitism. Hannah Arendt married Günther Stern in 1929, but soon began to encounter increasing antisemitism in 1930s Nazi Germany. Her dissertation was entitled Love and Saint Augustine and her supervisor was the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers. She obtained her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. After completing secondary education in Berlin, Arendt studied at the University of Marburg under Martin Heidegger, with whom she had a four-year affair. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family, her mother being an ardent Social Democrat. Paul Arendt had contracted syphilis in his youth, but was thought to be in remission when Arendt was born. When she was three, her family moved to the East Prussian capital of Königsberg for her father's health care. Īrendt was born to a Jewish family in Linden (now a district of Hanover) in 1906. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. This new edition, published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.Ī classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.Hannah Arendt ( / ˈ ɛər ə n t, ˈ ɑːr-/, US also / ə ˈ r ɛ n t/, German: ( listen) born Johanna Arendt 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American historian and political philosopher. The problems Arendt identified then - diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions - continue to confront us today. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations - from totalitarianism to revolution.Ī work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958.
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