Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. She emigrated to Paris after the rise of Nazism, in 1941 she went to live in the United States, where she worked as a teacher at the University of Chicago, Berkeley and Princeton. With works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), she established herself as a benchmark for contemporary political theory. In this essay, Rita Corsi exposes the thought of Hannah Arendt in a clear and synthetic way, offering the panorama of a political theory characterized by the experience of European fascism, the appearance of social democratic movements and the influence of thinkers such as Heidegger and Jaspers.