Hannah Arendt
Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist and social philosopher.
Works
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Monographs
- Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation, Berlin: Springer, 1929. (German)
- Love and St. Augustine, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951; 2nd edition, New York: World Publishing Co., Meridian Books, 1958; 3rd edition, San Diego/ New York/ London: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966, 1968, 1973; 1976; 1979, PDF; revised ed., New York: Schocken, 2004.
- Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, Frankfurt: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1955; 1958; 1961; 1962. (German)
- The Burden of Our Time, London: Secker and Warburg, 1951.
- Το Ολοκληρωτικό Σύστημα, trans. Γιάννης Λάμψας, Athens [Αθήνα]: Ευρύαλος, 1988, IA. (Greek)
- Origens do totalitarismo, trans. Roberto, Raposo Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1989. (Portuguese)
- Originile totalitarismului, trad. I. Dur şi M. Ivănescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2004; 2nd edition, 2006; 3rd edition, 2014, IA. (Romanian)
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Viking Press, 1963; revised and enlarged edition, 1965. Log
- Eichmann in Jerusalem. Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen, Munich: Piper, 1964. Log (German)
- Eichmann en Jerusalém, trans. Carlos Ribalta, Barcelona: Lumen, 1999; 2003. (Spanish)
- Eichmann la Ierusalim. Raport asupra banalitatii răului, trans. Mariana Net, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2008, 380 pp. (Romanian)
- Men in Dark Times, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
- Crises of the Republic, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969; 1972; 1973.
- The Promise of Politics, The University of the South, 1972, 1975, 2005.
- The human condition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958; 2nd ed., 1998.
- Vita activa oder von tätigen Leben, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1960; Munich: Piper, 1967. (German)
- Condiţia umană, trans. Claudiu Vereş and Gabriel Chindea, Cluj: Editura Idea Design & Print, 2007, PDF. (Romanian)
- A condição humana, trans. Roberto Raposo, 10th edition, Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2007, IA, [1]. (Portuguese)
- On Violence, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1970, PDF, Scribd.
- Sulla Violenza, trans. Aldo Chiaruttini, Milan: Arnoldo Monadatori, 1971, IA. (Italian)
- Macht und Gewalt, Munich: Piper, 1975. (German)
- Περί Βίας, trans. Βάνα Νικολαΐδου-Κυριανίδου, Athens [Αθήνα]: Αλεξάνδρεια, 2000, IA. (Greek)
- Sobre la violencia, trans. Guillermo Solana, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2005; 2006, IA. (Spanish)
- The Jew as Pariah, edited and with an Introduction by Ron H. Feldman, New York: Grove Press, 1978.
- The Life of the Mind, edited by Mary McCarthy, 2 vols., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978; 1981, IA.
- Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, edited by Ronald Beiner, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
- Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought, 1961; New York: Penguin, 1993.
- Essays in Understanding: 1930–1954. Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism, edited by Jerome Kohn, New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994, IA.
Essays
- Von der Menschlichkeit in Finsteren Zeiten: Gedanken Zu Lessing, Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1960; Munich: Piper, 1960, IA. (German)
- Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought, New York: Viking Press, 1961; revised edition, 1968.
- Tra Passato e Futuro, trans. Tania Gargiulo, Milan: Garzanti, 1991, IA. (Italian)
- On Revolution, New York: Viking Press, 1963; 2nd edition, 1965.
- Über die Revolution, Munich: Piper, 1963. (German)
- Sulla rivoluzione, trans. Maria Magrini, Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1983, IA. (Italian)
- Was ist Politik? Aus dem Nachlaß, Munich: Piper, 1995. (German)
- ¿Qué es política?, trans. Rosa Sala Carbó, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós, 1997. (Spanish)
- Responsibility and judgment, edited by Jerome Kohn, New York: Schocken, 2003, IA.
- The Jewish writings, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman, New York: Schocken, 2007, IA.
Bibliographies
Literature
- R.J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966.
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
- Dagmar Barnouw, Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
- Elzbieta Ettinger, Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
- Elzbieta Ettinger, Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger, New Haven, 1997.
- Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- John McGowan, Hannah Arendt. An Introduction, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, IA.
- Peter Baehr, editor, The portable Hannah Arendt, London: Penguin Classics, 2000, IA.
- Steven Aschheim (ed.), Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, Berkeley, 2001.
- Dana Villa (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt, Cambridge, 2006; 2010.
- Simon Swift, Hannah Arendt, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, IA.
- Anna Yeatman et al., editors, Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt, Continuum, 2011, IA.