![]() Despite this strong background in philosophy, however, in later life she consistently refused the label “philosopher”, declaring herself to be a political theorist.įollowing the rise to power of the Nazi regime in January 1933, Arendt began researching German antisemitism, leading to her arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo, as well as eight days in prison. In the 1920s she studied philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Marburg and Heidelberg, including under the leading philosophers Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Edmund Husserl in 1929 she submitted her doctoral thesis on the nature of love in the work of St Augustine. Born in 1906 to a middle class, secular Jewish family in Germany, Hannah Arendt excelled at school, though also demonstrated something of a rebellious streak. ![]()
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