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Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 into a well-established, non-religious German Jewish family. ... To enter the world of Hannah Arendt is to see the political and moral disasters of the twentieth century. ... But with the growing Nazi movement their paths divided and Arendt got exiled many times. Not enthusiastically anti-semitic, Heidegger began to make anti-Jewish remarks, pointing at a young boyfriend of Arendt’s. Much as Arendt adored Heidegger, she could not understand his identification with the Hitler movement. ... Arendt believed that the right to citizenship is not only denied by totalitarianism, as it is by every tyranny but also stands opposed to the principle that guides the acts of destruction that characterizes totalitarian systems. In 1941, after France fell to the Nazis, Arendt escaped from an internment camp in unoccupied Vichy first to Spain, then to Lisbon, and finally to New York.
Exiled again, and with a new husband, a Marxist veteran of the Spartacus, Arendt put Heidegger to the back of her mind, and began to develop an independent reputation as a brilliant scholar. ...
In 1951, the same year that The Origins of Totalitarianism was published, Arendt became an American citizen, formally marking a new beginning of her life. ... Arendt never forgot her foundation in the German language and in German philosophy, particularly in the thought of Immanuel Kant. ...
The humanistic education to which Arendt was naturally drawn and received at the universities of Marburg and Heidelberg also deepened throughout her life. ... Karl Jaspers introduced Arendt to a public realm of reason where it was possible to exist in the present and think in living communication. Karl Jaspers had also a wife who was Jewish, and after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, he was excluded from the senior position in the university but could still teach and publish as in comparison to Arendt who was exiled from all that teaching and publishing because she was a Jew she could not publish her work and so exiled from her intellectual. ... Humans are exiled for many reasons, as for Arendt, on bases of gender, intellectual and religion.
Approximate Word count = 1702
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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