Hanna Arendt

Text on the back -HANNA ARENDT, NEW YORK, 1944 PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED STEIN PETER STEIN FOTOFOLIO, BOX 661 CANAL STA., NY, NY 10013 P355 FOTOFOLIO;Production period - Last quarter of the 20th century;founders, architects, painters etc. - Fred Stein;Front Period - 1944;Category - Portraits;Description - The photo of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) leaning onher handswith acigarretin her right hand and an ashtrey in front of her. Hanna Arendtwas one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phen;Back Description - A divided back. The name of the photographed person and the name of the photographer appear in the top left side. In the bottom left side, together with the publisher's nameand the serial number, appear the name of theowner of the copyrightfortheoriginal photograph . The name of the publisher appears also as the divider.