Hannah Arendt

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A student of philosophers Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, Arendt, a German Jew, fled Europe for the United States in 1941. She taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City and at the University of Chicago. Arendt claimed that, beginning with Plato, the Western tradition has tended to denigrate human action by...

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