Related Resources

Selected Archival Collections

For Library of Congress collections, please click on the catalog record links for a fuller description and additional links to available online finding aids, indexes, and digital collections.

• Hannah Arendt Centre, Archives and Special Collections, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany. Website External. Contact at Matthias.bormuth@uni-oldenburg.de or arendt-zentrum@uol.de
• Hannah Arendt Collection, Stevenson Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Online collection External.
• Hannah Arendt New School Faculty Files and other resources, The New School Archives and Special Collections, New York, N.Y. Online finding aids and the New School Libraries homepage External Contact at archivist@newschool.edu.
• Janet Flanner and Solita Solano Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• Waldemar Gurian Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• Hans J. Morgenthau Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• Norman Podhoretz Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• John Toland Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• Fredric Wertham Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.
• Stefan Zweig Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record.

External Web Resources

• Arendt Index External A free-to-use full-text search tool for the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress. Developed by Rob McQueen, Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College. More information. External
• The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities External, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, N.Y.  Programs, events, educational opportunities, Arendt information and scholarship.
• The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress. Special event of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Virtual webinar hosted by Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz featuring: Barbara Bair, Thomas Wild, Barbara Hahn, Thomas Bartscherer, Wout Cornelissen, and Samantha Rose Hill. Recorded June 16, 2021. You Tube video External
• Amor Mundi newsletter and HA Journal. https://hac.bard.edu/publications External
• The Blücher Archive (digital presentation website) https://www.bard.edu/bluecher/ External  Heinrich Blücher lectures at Bard College and related materials, with explanatory framework.
• Further Reading (bibliography) https://hac.bard.edu/publications/further-reading/ External Publications, Arendt books and articles, scholarship and blog posts by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities staff and associated scholars.
• Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind Conference External, 28-30 March 2019, Vanderbilt University. Organized by Barbara Hahn, Wout Cornelissen, and Thomas Bartscherer.
• The Hannah Arendt Research Group External at Vanderbilt University. Department of German, Russian, and Eastern European Studies.
• Walstein Verlag External Critical Edition Hannah Arendt.

Books by Hannah Arendt (listed chronologically)

• Der Liebesbergriff bei Augustin. Berlin: J. Springer, 1929.  English translation edition, Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark, eds., Love and Saint Augustine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Sechs Essays. Heidelberg: L. Schneider, 1943.
• The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951. Third edition, with new prefaces, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966, 1968, 1973.
• The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. German edition Vita activa oder von tätigen Leben, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1960.
• Karl Jaspers: Reden Zur Verleihung des Friedenpreises des Deutschen Buchhandels. Munich: Piper, 1958.
• Rahel Varnhagen: Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin aus der Romantik. Munich: Piper, 1959. English translation Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
• Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought. New York: Viking Press, 1961.  Revised edition, including two additional essays, 1968.
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press, 1963.Revised and enlarged edition, 1965.
• On Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Revised second edition, 1965.
• Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
• On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.
• Walter Benjamin-Bertolt Brecht: Zwei Essays. Munich: Piper, 1971.
• Crises of the Republic. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
• The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age. Edited with an Introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
• The Life of the Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Two volumes of an uncompleted work, posthumous publication edited by Mary McCarthy.

Selected Biographies, Articles, Critical Editions, Interviews, and Other Related Works

• Albrecht, Tobias. Handeln und Kritik. Politik-und Gesellschaftstheorie nach Arendt und Adorno. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2022.
• Arendt, Hannah. “Foreword to Carl Heidenreich’s Exhibition Catalogue,” in Reflections on Literature and Culture, ed.by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007, pp.203–205.
• Arendt, Hannah. Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013.
• Arendt, Hannah. The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs, eds. Barbara Hahn, James McFarland, et al. Vol. 6 of Complete Works: Critical Edition. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018.
• Arendt, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen: Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin, ed. Barbara Hahn. Vol. 2 of Complete Works: Critical Edition. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021.
• Arendt, Hannah. Sechs Essays: Die Verborgene Tradition, eds. Barbara Hahn, Barbara Breysach and Christian Pischel. Vol. 3 of Complete Works: Critical Edition. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019.
• Arendt, Hannah. “We Refugees” (1943), in The Jewish Writings, eds. Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007, pp.264–265
• Bair, Barbara. “New Hannah Arendt By the People Crowdsourcing Transcription Campaign Launched for Jewish American Heritage Month” Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress. Guest blog edited by Elizabeth Novara. Posted May 10, 2022.
• Bair, Barbara. “The Poetic Hannah Arendt: A Conversation with Arendt Researcher Samantha Rose Hill.” From the Catbird Seat: Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress. Guest blog post edited by Anne Holmes. Posted June 14, 2021.
• Benhabib, Selya, Roy T. Tsao, and Peter J. Verovsek, eds. Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Benhabib, Seyla. The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.
• Berkowitz, Roger. "The Human Condition Today: The Challenge of Science." Arendt Studies 2 (2018): 17-24.
• Berkowitz, Roger. "Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt’s Politics." In Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch, ed. by Berkowitz Roger and Ian Storey, 9-36. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
• Berkowitz, Roger, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds. Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
• Berkowitz, Roger, and Ian Storey, eds. Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch External.New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
• Bernstein, Richard J.  Why Read Hannah Arendt Now. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
• Bernstein, Richard J. "Are Arendt's Reflections on Evil Still Relevant?" The Review of Politics 70, no. 1 (2008): 64-76.
• Bernstein, Richard J. “The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt.” The New York Times (June 20, 2018).
• Bernstein, Richard J. "Reflections on Radical Evil: Arendt and Kant." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 85, no. 1/2 (2002): 17-30.
• Birmingham, P. Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
• Bormuth, Matthias. Life Conduct in Modern Times : Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, c. 2006.
• Brightman, Carol, ed.  Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
• Butorac, S. K.  “Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, and the Politics of Love.” Political Research Quarterly. 71, no. 3 (2018): 710-721. 
• Canovan, Margaret. Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of her Political Thought. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Cavarero, Adriana. Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought. Translated by Matthew Gervase. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021.
• Courtine-Denamy, Sylvie. Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or Amor Fati, Amor Mundi. Translated from the French by G. M. Goshgarian.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000.
• Heller, Anne Conover. Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
• Hill, Samantha Rose. “Walter Benjamin’s Last Work.”  Los Angeles Review of Books (December 9, 2019). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/walter-benjamins-last-work/ External
• Hill, Samantha Rose.  Critical Lives: Hannah Arendt.  London: Reaktion Books/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
• Honig, Bonnie, ed.  Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt.  University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
• King, Richard H.  Arendt and America.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Knott, Marie Luise, ed. The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• Kohler, Lotte, ed. Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968. Translated from German by Peter Constantine.  New York: Harcourt, 2000.
• Kohler, Lotte, and Hans Saner, eds. Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Correspondence, 1926-1969. Translated from German by Robert and Rita Kimber. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
• Kohn, Jerome. “The World of Hannah Arendt.” Library of Congress Information Bulletin (March 2001). Available online.
• Kohn, Jerome, ed. Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile and Totalitarianism. New York: Schocken Books, 1994.
• Kohn, Jerome, ed.  Hannah Arendt, Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding 1953-1975. New York: Schocken Books, 2018.
• Kohn, Jerome, and Ron H. Feldman, eds.  Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
• Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
• Ludz, Ursula, ed. Letters, 1925-1975: Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Translated from the German by Andrew Shields. Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
• Markell, Patchen. “Arendt’s Work: On the Architecture of The Human Condition.” College Literature 38, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 15–44.
• Markell, Patchen. “Politics and the Case of Poetry: Arendt on Brecht.” Modern Intellectual History 15, no. 2 (August 2018): 503–533.
• Markell, Patchen. “The Rule of the People: Arendt, Archê, and Democracy.” American Political Science Review 100, no. 1 (February 2006): 1–14.
• McQueen, Rob. “A Full-Text Search Tool for the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress.” External Amor Mundi online newsletter of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, July 29, 2021.
• Power, Samantha.  ‘The Lesson of Hannah Arendt.” New York Review (April 29, 2004). Available online External.
• Power, Samantha. “Introduction” to Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Schocken Books, 2004.  Reprint of 1st ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.
• Rebentisch, Juliane. Der Streit um Pluralität - Auseinandersetzungen mit Hannah Arendt. Berlin Suhrkamp Verlag, 2022.
• Swift, Simon.  Hannah Arendt. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Valter, Miguel E.  Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Villa, Dana.  Arendt. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2021.
• Villa, Dana, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 
• Watson, David. "Hannah Arendt and the American Republic." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28, no. 3 (1992): 423-65.
• Wild, Thomas. Nach dem Geschichtsbruch: Deutsche Schriftsteller um Hannah Arendt. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2009.
• Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.  Second edition, 2004.

Documentary and Feature Films

• Hannah Arendt.  Biographical drama. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Starring Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt and Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy. New York: Zeitgeist Films, 2018.
• Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin.  Documentary film. Directed by Michael Blackwood. January 1968 lecture by Arendt at the Goethe House in New York. In German, with simultaneous English audio translation.
• Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.  Documentary film. Directed and written by Ada Ushpiz. Intuitive Pictures/AU Films, 2015.