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Hannah Arendt
Manage episode 171491771 series 1301290
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust.
With
Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia
Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge
and
Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
155 episodes
Manage episode 171491771 series 1301290
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust.
With
Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia
Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge
and
Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
155 episodes
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