ARENDT, Hannah, (1906-1975), German-American political scientist who characterised 'totalitarianism'. Received Doctorate from the University of Heidelberg at the age of 22 after studying under Martin Heidegger. In 1933 she went to France to escape the Nazis and, in 1941, fled to the U.S., becoming a U.S. citizen in 1951. Arendt was research director, Conference on Jewish Relations (1944-46); chief editor, Schocken Books (1946-48); executive secretary, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (1949-52); visiting professor, Princeton (1959), Columbia (1960); professor, U. of Chicago at Berkeley (1963-67), New School for Social Research (1967-75). Author of Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), On Revolution (1963), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), On Violence (1970).
Phenomenologists
Heidegger and Arendt in Love