Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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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.

Date: 06/30/2015

Rating: 7.4

Cast: Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein, Idith Zertal, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Gertrude Heidegger, Emmanuel Faye, Deborah Lipstadt, Judith Butler, Khaled Furani, Yehuda Bauer, Adi Ophir, Roger Errera, Edna Brocke, Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausnet, Hannah Arendt, Adolf Hitler, Hans Jonas, Hermann Göring, Otto Ohlendorf, Martin Heidegger

Alison Darcy

Richard Bernstein

Jerome Kohn

Steven Asheim

Aharon Appelfeld