NTA UGC/NET/SET/JRF Political Science Paper 2 - 2024, 2nd Edition, Includes 2023 Solved Papers

CHAPTER 13

Hannah Ardent (1906–75)

INTRODUCTION

Hannah Ardent was a pure political philosopher of the twentieth-century, an author, and the Holocaust survivor. She was born in Hannover, Germany and is known as a German-born American political scientist and philosopher. She was also famous for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and the study of Totalitarianism. She is best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. Her works were related to historical and contemporary political events, such as the rise and fall of Nazism, and drew a conclusion about the relationship between the individual and society. She also gave the concept of ‘Bureaucratization of Terror’. ...