HANNAH ARENDT: [played by Barbara Sukowa] Under no circumstances will I give up my classes. UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR 2: You may not have enough students who are willing to study with you.

Arendt was born in 1906 in what is now Hanover, Germany, to secular, middle-class Jewish parents. Having read all of Kant’s works by the age of 14, she received her doctorate in philosophy at ...

Hannah Arendt did more than anyone else to give the idea of totalitarianism the importance we accord it today. But like her contemporary George Orwell, in her subtlest trains of thought Arendt was ...

She follows Arendt to Hanover, where she was born. She pictures the young Hannah crossing the bridges of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) and proudly responding to the boys calling her “Jewess!”.

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth By Ken Krimstein (Bloomsbury). In conversation with Dmitry Samarov Sat 11/17, 5 PM, the Dial Bookshop, 410 S. Michigan, dialbookshop.com. F ...

In 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind.” ...

Daphne Merkin on a brilliant new film presenting Hannah Arendt in the midst of the Eichmann trial and the 'banality of evil.' Daphne Merkin Published Jun. 4 2013 4:45AM EDT Zeitgeist Films/Everett ...

Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) wrote about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker, coining the phrase “banality of evil.” (Zeitgeist Films) ...

A glance at the summer issue of Social Research: Hannah Arendt on totalitarianismImmediately following the publication of her acclaimed The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt (1906 ...

‘To think critically is always to be hostile,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt declared in what turned out to be her last interview before her death in 1975. Pointing out that critical ...

Hannah Arendt is sympathetic to many of the claims Arendt makes in her notorious book, but it is the film’s handling of the Judenrat controversy (which arose after Arendt’s articles first ...

Hannah Arendt is a remarkably successful attempt from heavy-weight German director Margarethe Von Trotta, who has filmed the biopics of Rosa Luxemburg and Hildegard von Bingen with serious passion.