Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German American writer political scientist and Holocaust
survivor. She remains widely regarded as one of the most influential political theorists of the
20th century. Born into a German-Jewish family in Hanover she spent her childhood in Hanover
as well as in Königsberg Prussia. She began her studies in philosophy at the University of
Marburg in 1924 and received her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Her
philosophical writings are characterised by a strong rebuke of totalitarianism Nazism racism
and imperialism. Once the Nazi's came to power in 1933 she was briefly imprisoned for
performing illegal research into antisemitism. Upon her release she lived in exile in Paris
where she lived until she fled persecution for the United States in 1941. Ten years later she
was naturalised as an American citizen. While in the US Arendt wrote some of her most
significant works including The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition
(1958). She also taught philosophy at the University of Chicago and later at the New School
for Social Research in New York City where she resided until her death in 1975. This bookend
is part of the series Radical Stands the result of a collaboration between the publisher
TankeKraft and Jan Landqvist. As of May 2022 Radical Stands are part of the Novellix bookend
series. The conception and design behind our bookends stem from Swedish renowned industrial
designer Jan Landqvist and are made in the small town of Gnosjö in the south of Sweden.
