Antonia Grunenberg (born 2 May 1944) is a German

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regu ...

researcher and an expert on the political thought of Hannah Arendt. She is professor emerita at the

University of Oldenburg The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (german: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) is a university located in Oldenburg, Germany. It is one of the most important and highly regarded educational facilities in northwestern German ...

, where she taught as a full professor from 1998 until her 2009 retirement, and where she was director of the Hannah Arendt Centre. She is also editor of the book series ''Hannah Arendt Studies''. Grunenberg earned her doctorate in philosophy at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

in 1975 and a habilitation in political science at RWTH Aachen University in 1986. Grunenberg was appointed by the federal government as a member of the scientific committee of the

Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship The Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship (german: Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, alternatively translated as "(Federal) Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany") is a governmen ...

in 2006.

Bibliography

* ''Der Zusammenhang zwischen Linksradikalismus und Geschichtsphilosophie in Praxis und Theorie von Georg Lukacs (1918–1928)'', 1975 * ''Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger und Karl Jaspers. Denken im Schatten des Traditionsbruchs.'' In: ''Hannah Arendt: Verborgene Tradition – Unzeitgemäße Aktualität?'' Hrsg. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin 2007, * ''Hannah Arendt und Martin Heidegger. Geschichte einer Liebe.'', München and Zürich, 2006, * ''Hannah Arendt.'' In der Reihe Meisterdenker Spektrum, Freiburg 2003, * ''Der Schlaf der Freiheit. Politik und Gemeinsinn im 21. Jahrhundert.'' Reinbek 2002, * ''Die Lust an der Schuld. Von der Macht der Vergangenheit über die Gegenwart.'' Berlin: Rowohlt, 2001. . * ''Antifaschismus – Ein deutscher Mythos.'' Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1993. * ''Aufbruch der inneren Mauer. Politik und Kultur in der DDR 1971–1989.'' Edition Temmen, 1990,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grunenberg, Antonia German political scientists 1944 births Living people Women political scientists Hannah Arendt University of Oldenburg faculty Free University of Berlin alumni RWTH Aachen University alumni