Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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Arendt as educator

What was exemplary in Arendt's life?

What can a reader learn from and through the life experience Arendt had?
What effects for good and ill may her life and work have on someone who takes her as an exemplary figure?
What were the limiting factors constraining her?

Arendt's ideas and their formative power

What are the key concepts, the ideas that Arendt developed in her work?
What was the formative power these concepts offered Arendt's contemporaries? Why did they have meaning, or fail to have meaning, to others in the historical context of her time?
What formative power do her ideas have in the historical context of our time? Of any time?
What disabilities might her ideas impart?