Arendt, Hannah
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːrənt/
Definition of Arendt, Hannah
- (1906–75), German-born American philosopher and political theorist. A pupil of Heidegger, she established her reputation as a political thinker with one of the first works to propose that Nazism and Stalinism had common roots. Notable works: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
