
Hannah Arendt
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century, a humanist thinker who thought boldly and provocatively about our shared political and ethical world.
Inspired by philosophy, she warned against the political dangers of philosophy to abstract and obfuscate the plurality and reality of our shared world. She fiercely defended the importance of the public sphere, but she was also intensely private and defended the importance of privacy and solitude as prerequisites for a life in public.
Embraced by liberals and conservatives, she also enraged and engaged interlocutors from all political persuasions.