Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
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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...
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Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Frie...
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Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assi...
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Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer
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Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Stud...
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Idith Zertal
Self - Historian
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian Dissi...
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Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's G...
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Emmanuel Faye
Self - Philosopher
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Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
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Khaled Furani
Self - Anthropologis...
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Yehuda Bauer
Self - Historian
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Adi Ophir
Self - Philosopher