A truly remarkable woman I would have liked to have met. Her philosophy is profound and positive, offering hope in the uniqueness of people and of their capacity to change. We are not commodities or merely homogenised units of consumption but truly remarkable and different from the animals by our capacity to forgive and to make and keep promises.
A woman who experienced great personal loss and turmoil including her need to flee Nazi Germany and to witness her former lover and former lecturer Heidegger condone through inactivity, National Socialism and it's anti-semitic policies. Forced to flee Germany she eventually settled in the USA becoming the first female professor of politics at Princeton University.
Arendt coined the phrase the 'banality of evil' and her seminal book Eichmann in Jerusalem follows this theme.
"Your birth was a truly new beginning, an opportunity for something to come into being that was not there before."
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