Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 20th century
Hannah Arendt
The political thinker who fled the Nazis: The Origins of Totalitarianism, labor/work/action in The Human Condition, the Eichmann trial and the 'banality of evil', and the right to have rights.
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Prereqs: Sartre; World War II. Next: Rawls & Nozick; Popper's Open Society. Sources: Arendt, *The Origins of Totalitarianism* (1951), *The Human Condition* (1958), *Eichmann in Jerusalem* (1963); Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, *Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World* (1982).Next: 1. Life