Hannah Arendt: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (1982), is a biography. Analyses of her work include Steven E. Aschheim (ed.), Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (2001); Margaret Canovan, Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought (1992); Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman (eds.), Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays (1994); Bonnie Honig (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (1995); Richard J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question (1996); Larry May and Jerome Kohn (eds.), Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later (1996); Bettina Stangneth, Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (2014, originally published in German, 2011); and Richard Wolin, Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse (2001). Most of Arendt’s correspondence with Heidegger is published in Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, Letters, 1925–1975, ed. by Ursula Ludz, trans. from the German by Andrew Shields.

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Article History

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Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. Sep 26, 2026
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. Jan 17, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 30, 2025
Anniversary information added. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt. Jul 23, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt. Jun 13, 2025
Changed the spelling of “anti-Semitism” to “antisemitism.” Apr 09, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: The Heroine Collective - Biography: Hannah Arendt ? Political Theorist. Aug 21, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt?s Lessons in Love and Disobedience ? review. May 31, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Columbia College - The Core Curriculum - Biography of Hannah Arendt. Jan 23, 2024
Add new Web site: The National Endowment for the Humanities - The Trial of Hannah Arendt. Nov 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Digital Collections - Hannah Arendt Papers. Aug 10, 2023
Add new Web site: The University of Chicago - Woman is a Rational Animal - Biography of Hannah Arendt. May 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities - About Hannah Arendt. Apr 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Contemporary Thinkers - Hannah Arendt. Jan 16, 2023
Add new Web site: INSTAR - Official Site of the Institute of Artivism Hannah Arendt. Sep 07, 2016
Add new Web site: INSTAR - Official Site of the Institute of Artivism Hannah Arendt. Sep 07, 2016
Bibliography revised. Jun 04, 2015
Article revised to mention Bettina Stangneth's Eichmann Before Jerusalem. Jun 02, 2015
Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Hannah Arendt. Apr 29, 2015
Add new Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Biography of Hannah Arendt. Apr 29, 2015
Replaced photograph. May 15, 2014
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975). Dec 23, 2008
Added new Web site: The Literary Encyclopedia - Biography of Hannah Arendt. May 24, 2007
Added new Web site: The Literary Encyclopedia - Biography of Hannah Arendt. May 23, 2007
Article revised. Nov 10, 2005
Article revised. Feb 10, 2000
Article added to new online database. Sep 08, 1999
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