Philosopher Hannah Arendt spent her life examining the totalitarian states of the 20th century, coining the phrase "banality of evil." On the 100th anniversary of Arendt's birth, Elisabeth ...

In the thousand letters she wrote and received, friendship emerges as one of the great and palpable joys of Hannah Arendt’s ...

Hannah Arendt is unlikely to be a social media star. Newly relevant 40 years after her death, the German-born philosopher’s work is distinctly ill-suited to contemporary tools of relevance. Twitter’s ...

The disturbing relevance of Arendt's work is well-known. Nowhere is this more evident than in her three-volume work, “The ...

Hannah Arendt was a good friend. When she was a teenage girl, she was forbidden by her mother and stepfather from visiting an acquaintance named Anne Mendelssohn, but she went anyway, walking to a ...

A photo of Hannah Arendt at the exhibition in the German Historical Museum. Photo: DPA Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. As an ...

Hannah Arendt is back in the news, in anticipation of the release of the book “Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations,” on Tuesday, and of Claude Lanzmann’s film “The Last of the ...

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing? By Jennifer Szalai Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus,” which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go ...

This biopic feels like a movie stuck in another era, stolid and rote, more of an outline for a dramatic treatment than the real thing. The pic’s opening moments comprise its sole action, per se, with ...