Hannah Arendt
Make room for a shared world.
Hannah Arendt investigates political life among people who differ from one another. Exile, totalitarianism and the destruction of rights inform a body of work distinguishing action, labor, thinking and judgment, without promising a formula that can replace responsibility.
How can we act together without erasing our differences?
Biography
Hannah Arendt investigates political life among people who differ from one another. Exile, totalitarianism and the destruction of rights inform a body of work distinguishing action, labor, thinking and judgment, without promising a formula that can replace responsibility.
02 /Philosophy
Politics exists because we share a world while appearing within it from different positions. Unanimity and uniformity are therefore not its initial conditions.
03 /Reading guides
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
04 /Bibliography
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
A first reading.
Recovering a shared world
Read The Human Condition through the activities that make up an ordinary day.
The Human ConditionReading the mechanisms of domination
Approach The Origins of Totalitarianism without turning a historical concept into a generic insult.
The Origins of TotalitarianismResponsibility and the banality of evil
Read Eichmann in Jerusalem by separating Arendt’s argument, trial evidence and subsequent historical research.
Eichmann in Jerusalem