The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

1906–1975 · German-American political theorist and philosopher

• Professor at Berkeley
• Professor at Chicago
• Professor at Columbia
• Professor at Princeton

Profession

Political scientist, Philosopher, Historian, Professor

Worked at

Berkeley, Princeton, Chicago, Columbia

Studied at

Heidelberg, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Freiburg

Prizes

Guggenheim Fellowship (1952), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1962), Sigmund Freud Prize (1967), Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1969), Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (1975), Sonning Prize (1975)

Coined 'the banality of evil' while reporting on the Eichmann trial.

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