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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt( 2015)

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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.

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      Alison Darcy

      Hannah Arendt (voice)

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      Richard Bernstein

      Self - Arendt's Friend

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      Jerome Kohn

      Self - Arendt's Assistant

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      Steven Asheim

      Self - Professor

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      Aharon Appelfeld

      Self - Writer

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      Leon Botstein

      Self - Arendt's Student

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      Idith Zertal

      Self - Historian

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      Ramin Jahanbegloo

      Self - Iranian Dissident

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      Gertrude Heidegger

      Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

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      Emmanuel Faye

      Self - Philosopher

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      Deborah Lipstadt

      Self - Historian

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      Judith Butler

      Self - Philosopher

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      Khaled Furani

      Self - Anthropologist

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      Yehuda Bauer

      Self - Historian

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      Adi Ophir

      Self - Philosopher

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      Roger Errera

      Self - Journalist

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      Edna Brocke

      Self - Arendt's Niece

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      Adolf Eichmann

      Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

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      Gideon Hausnet

      Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

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      Hannah Arendt

      Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

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      Adolf Hitler

      Self - Politician (archive footage)

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      Hans Jonas

      Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

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      Hermann Göring

      Self - Politician (archive footage)

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      Otto Ohlendorf

      Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

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      Martin Heidegger

      Self - Philosopher (archive footage)

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    English

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    Keywords

    • holocaust (shoah)
    • jew persecution
    • nuremberg trials
    • biography
    • holocaust (shoah) survivor
    • woman director
    • adolf eichmann's trial
    • philosopher
    • european history
    • female writer
    • nazi war criminal