20th century · 1906–1975
Who influenced Hannah Arendt?
Influences
Thought politics as action and named 'the banality of evil' — totalitarianism's clearest reader.
Hannah Arendt was influenced by Immanuel Kant, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Hannah Arendt?
Hannah Arendt grew up in a secular Jewish family, studied under Martin Heidegger at Marburg and wrote her doctorate on love in Saint Augustine under Karl Jaspers. Briefly jailed by the Gestapo in 1933, she fled to Paris, helped young Jews emigrate to Palestine, escaped internment in France and reached the United States in 1941.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) made her name, followed by The Human Condition, On Revolution and Eichmann in Jerusalem, whose phrase "the banality of evil" and account of how ordinary people serve totalitarian systems caused a long controversy. She taught at many American universities and died in 1975 with The Life of the Mind unfinished.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Hannah Arendt?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Karl Jaspers 1883–1969
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
The line of teachers behind Hannah Arendt
The longest documented line of influence ending at Hannah Arendt runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Max Stirner
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Karl Jaspers
- Hannah Arendt
Two steps away from Hannah Arendt
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Hannah Arendt
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hannah Arendt, with no direct line between them.
- Emmanuel Levinas 1906–1995
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908–1961
- Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
- Simone Weil 1909–1943
Hannah Arendt by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 111
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 94 — #14 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Hannah Arendt
- Who influenced Hannah Arendt?
- Immanuel Kant, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger.
- Who did Hannah Arendt influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Hannah Arendt.
- When did Hannah Arendt live?
- 1906–1975. The map files Hannah Arendt under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Hannah Arendt card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Hannah Arendt in 94 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Max Weber 1864–1920
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016