Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt(2015)

NRDocumentary, History2h 8m

Overview

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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  1. Alison Darcy

    Hannah Arendt (voice)

  2. Richard Bernstein

    Self - Arendt's Friend

  3. Jerome Kohn

    Self - Arendt's Assistant

  4. Steven Asheim

    Self - Professor

  5. Aharon Appelfeld

    Aharon Appelfeld

    Self - Writer

  6. Leon Botstein

    Self - Arendt's Student

  7. Idith Zertal

    Self - Historian

  8. Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Self - Iranian Dissident

  9. Gertrude Heidegger

    Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

  10. Emmanuel Faye

    Self - Philosopher

  11. Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  12. Judith Butler

    Judith Butler

    Self - Philosopher

  13. Khaled Furani

    Self - Anthropologist

  14. Yehuda Bauer

    Self - Historian

  15. Adi Ophir

    Self - Philosopher