Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

7.3 June 30, 2015 2h 8m Released
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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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Cast

  • Alison Darcy

    Alison Darcy

    Hannah Arendt (voice)

  • Richard Bernstein

    Richard Bernstein

    Self - Arendt's Friend

  • Jerome Kohn

    Jerome Kohn

    Self - Arendt's Assistant

  • Steven Asheim

    Steven Asheim

    Self - Professor

  • Aharon Appelfeld

    Aharon Appelfeld

    Self - Writer

  • Leon Botstein

    Leon Botstein

    Self - Arendt's Student

  • Idith Zertal

    Idith Zertal

    Self - Historian

  • Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Self - Iranian Dissident

  • Gertrude Heidegger

    Gertrude Heidegger

    Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

  • Emmanuel Faye

    Emmanuel Faye

    Self - Philosopher

  • Deborah Lipstadt

    Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  • Judith Butler

    Judith Butler

    Self - Philosopher

  • Khaled Furani

    Khaled Furani

    Self - Anthropologist

  • Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer

    Self - Historian

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