Book No. –  3 (Political Science – Western Political Thought)

Book Name Western Political Thought (OP Gauba)

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1. General Introduction

2. Concept of Freedom

3. Concept of Power

4. Views on Revolution and Totalitarianism

5. On the Nature of Politics

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Hannah Arendt

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Harshit Sharma

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General Introduction

  • Hannah Arendt (1906-75) was a brilliant American political philosopher, born in Germany.

  • Her parents were secular Jews raised in Russian Jewish homes.

  • She earned her doctorate in 1929 from the University of Heidelberg.

  • Prevented from teaching in German universities due to being Jewish.

  • Became a political activist in 1933 with the rise of Nazism in Germany.

  • Arrested by Gestapo for researching anti-Semitic propaganda; released and escaped to Paris, France.

  • Migrated to the United States in 1941 and gained American citizenship in 1951.

  • Became an intellectual celebrity and held professorial positions in American universities.

  • Notable works include:

    • The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

    • The Human Condition (1958)

    • On Revolution (1961/1965)

    • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963/1965)

    • On Violence (1969)

    • Crises of the Republic (1972)

    • The Promise of Politics (2005)

  • Known for her analysis of human freedom and various forms of power in contemporary society.

  • Her thinking is original and cannot be confined to any single prevalent ideology.

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