Er war ein Berliner
The reputation for being austere and humourless isn't bourne out by the Berlin works of Kierkegaard.
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Jonathan Rée introduces the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
Timeline
1906 14 October - Hannah Arendt born in Hanover
1924-6 studies with Martin Heidegger in Marburg
1928 completes doctoral dissertation on St Augustine at Heidelberg
1933 works for socialist and Zionist causes; arrest in Berlin; flight to Paris, where she undertakes social work preparing young Jews for a new life in Palestine
1935 first visit to Jerusalem
1940 internment in France
1941 refugee in New York, working as journalist and editor
1951 publishes The Origins of Totalitarianism; becomes an American citizen
1958 publishes The Human Condition
1961 publishes Between Past and Present
April - stays in Jerusalem to cover Eichmann trial (pictured right)
1962 June - Eichmann hanged
1963 February-March - “Eichmann in Jersualem” published in five instalments in New Yorker, and denounced as anti-Semitic in New York Times;
published a book entitled Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil. Publication of On Revolution.
1967 professor at New School for Social Research, New York
1975 8 December - dies of a heart attack in New York
1978 publication of two volumes of The Life of the Mind
Reading
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil, Penguin paperback
Peter Baehr, editor, The Portable Hannah Arendt, Penguin paperback
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Content last updated: 27/07/2005
