'A' is for ... Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Abstract

In her life Arendt retained a deep, non-dogmatic, personal faith, but she also believed, Verkamp informs us further, that “the injection of religious passion into political life would likely pervert both religion and politics into detestable exercises in ideological fanaticism.” In emerging adulthood, she attended lectures in Christian theology and was introduced to the work of Søren Kierkegaard. Her pursuit of knowledge may have begun with theology but soon led her into philosophy as well.