Hannah Arendt: A Woman in the History of Philosophy

Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was a political thinker and publicist. Her name became widely known due to her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Hannah Arendt was born in Germany into a Jewish family. She fought against the Nazi regime, miraculously escaped a concentration camp, and then began to study the origins of totalitarianism in an individual and in society as a whole.

During World War II, Hannah Arendt moved to the United States, where she taught at many universities. As a correspondent, she attended the trial of the Nazi criminal, the “Architect of the Holocaust”, Adolf Eichmann in 1961.

The concept of the “banality of evil" proposed by Hannah Arendt is still one of the most debated issues in ethics. Hannah Arendt had a great influence on the development of moral philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Foreign Literature Department invites you to watch the presentation “Hannah Arendt: A Woman in the History of Philosophy”.