Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most important and influential twentieth-century political and moral philosophers. Her work has influenced and still influences generations of intellectuals who want to fathom how totalitarian catastrophes were possible, the role of movement parties, and salvationist ideologies in constructing genocidal systems such as Nazism and Stalinism. Moreover, Hannah Arendt’s ideas mark the current discussions about lies, violence, riots, revolutions, terror, resistance, authenticity, responsibility, guilt, shame, political passions, and the nature of democratic poleis at large.
