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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Documentary
History
128 mins
7.4
2015

Description

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.

Casts:

Alison Darcy
Richard Bernstein
Jerome Kohn
Steven Asheim
Aharon Appelfeld
Leon Botstein
Idith Zertal
Ramin Jahanbegloo

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