In Our Time

Hannah Arendt (Archive Episode)


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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.
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Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

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