Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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June 30, 2015
2h 8m
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The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.
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Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's FriendJerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's AssistantSteven Asheim
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Aharon Appelfeld
Self - WriterLeon Botstein
Self - Arendt's StudentIdith Zertal
Self - HistorianRamin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian DissidentGertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's GranddaughterEmmanuel Faye
Self - PhilosopherDeborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Judith Butler
Self - PhilosopherKhaled Furani
Self - AnthropologistYehuda Bauer
Self - HistorianAdi Ophir
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