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Hannah Arendt

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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:40 authored by Patricia Owens
Hannah Arendt (1906-75) is one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth-century. She is well-known for her monumental study The Origins of Totalitarianism (1966 [1951]), her diagnosis of modern politics and society in The Human Condition, and for coining the term 'the banality of evil' to describe a Nazi war criminal in her most controversial book, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1968a [1963]). Arendt did not shy away from controversy in her life-time and some of her most controversial and important ideas continue to shape political discourse. The latest surge of engagement with Arendt's writing - coinciding with the centenary of her birth in 2006 - has occurred at a time that has produced moral and political disasters very similar and in many ways related to those she addressed in the various stages of her life. As international theory has returned to the canon of political thought it is not surprising that Arendt's unique and often idiosyncratic contribution is coming to the fore. Like many others discussed in this volume, serious engagement with Arendt in international political theory is belated and welcome.

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  • Published

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

31-41

Pages

11.0

Book title

Critical Theorists and International Relations

Place of publication

Oxon, United Kingdom and New York

ISBN

9780415474658

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  • International Relations Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

N Vaughan-Williams, J Edkins

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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