Wednesday, March 3, 2010

10.322 HANNAH ARENDT




GERMAN POLITICAL THEORISTARENDT'S WORK CENTERS ON THE FACT THAT "MEN, NOT MAN, LIVE ON THE EARTH AND INHABIT THE WORLD" ARENDT'S WORK DEALS WITH THE NATURE OF POWER, AND THE SUBJECTS OF POLITICS, AUTHORITY, AND TOTALITARIANISM. MUCH OF HER WORK FOCUSES ON AFFIRMING A CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH COLLECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION AMONG EQUALS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, SHE STUDIED PHILOSOPHY WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER IN 1950, SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1959, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO A FULL PROFESSORSHIP AT PRINCETON.

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  1. GERMAN POLITICAL THEORIST. HER WORK CENTERS ON THE FACT THAT "MEN, NOT MAN, LIVE ON THE EARTH AND INHABIT THE WORLD" ARENDT'S WORK DEALS WITH THE NATURE OF POWER, AND THE SUBJECTS OF POLITICS, AUTHORITY, AND TOTALITARIANISM. MUCH OF HER WORK FOCUSES ON AFFIRMING A CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH COLLECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION AMONG EQUALS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, SHE STUDIED PHILOSOPHY WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER. IN 1950, SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1959, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO A FULL PROFESSORSHIP AT PRINCETON, THOUGH THE UNIVERSITY FIRST ADMITTED FEMALE STUDENTS AS LATE AS 1969.

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