Hannah Arendt

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HA trained as a philosopher and spoke of philosophy as her first love. She became better known for her writings on modern history and political theory, in essays, monographs, and her famous or notorious reporting of the Eichmann trial.
Black and white photograph of Hannah Arendt, leaning casually in a chair, with a raised cigarette in one hand. Her hair is short and she is wearing a button-up shirt and a beaded necklace.

Milestones

14 October 1906
HA was born in Linden near Hanover in Germany after a twenty-two-hour labour, weighing over three and a half kilos. She was an only child.
Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. Guberman, RossTranslator , Columbia University Press, 2001.
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Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
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16 February - 16 March 1963
Also this year, HA published serially in five New Yorker pieces her account of the trial for war crimes of Adolf Eichmann , which she had attended in 1961.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
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By 19 May 1963
HA 's account of the trial of war criminal Adolf Eichmann (fresh from its serialization in the New Yorker) appeared in volume form as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Laqueur, Thomas. “Four pfennige per track km”. London Review of Books, pp. 7 - 12.
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Musmanno, Michael A. “Man with an Unspotted Conscience”. The New York Times.
Musmanno
4 December 1975
HA died of a heart attack at her apartment on Riverside Drive in New York City, in her study-living-room, in the presence of friends to whom she had just served dinner and for whom she was now pouring coffee.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
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6 February 1978
Mary McCarthy , HA 's literary executor, edited and published a handsome boxed set
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
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containing the first two volumes of The Life of the Mind, the final, uncompleted work in which Arendt returned to philosophy.
“Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt”. Kirkus Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
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Biography

Birth and Family

14 October 1906
HA was born in Linden near Hanover in Germany after a twenty-two-hour labour, weighing over three and a half kilos. She was an only child.
Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. Guberman, RossTranslator , Columbia University Press, 2001.
11
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004.
xlvi

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