Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Hannah Arendt
Political scientist and philosopher, author of Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and many others.
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In the wake of the earliest human expeditions to space, the 1963 edition of The Great Ideas Today—an Encyclopædia Britannica publication released each year between 1961 and 1998—contained a topical “Symposium on Space.” The editors asked five thinkers, including the German-born political theorist…
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