Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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2015

DocumentaryHistory

2 hours 8 minutes

Summary

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.

Ada Ushpiz

Director