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Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalitarianism, statelessness and the banality of evil – to explain the importance of her thinking for our times.
Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
This podcast is for informative and educational purposes.
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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Manage episode 436652950 series 2889048
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalitarianism, statelessness and the banality of evil – to explain the importance of her thinking for our times.
Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
This podcast is for informative and educational purposes.
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
Subtitles, also known as closed captions, are available on our YouTube videos. You can access them by clicking on the 'CC' button or gear icon on the video. The 'CC' button and gear icon are usually located at the bottom of videos.
Find out more about the British Academy: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/
For future events, visit our website: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/
Subscribe to our email newsletter: https://email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/p/6P7Q-5PO/newsletter
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