Podcast Episodes featuring Hannah Arendt

Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt Now" (Polity, 2018)

New Books Network - November 20, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today. Her foresight about the fragility of democratic life is relevant for the worst possible reasons: populism, white supremacy, mass deception, the rise of fascism around the world, the coordinated assault on seriou...

Episode #136 ... Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil

Philosophize This! - October 31, 2019 21:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14.2K ratings
Today we discuss the work of Hannah Arendt.  Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twi...

Women obsessed with women, Hannah Arendt, CPS challenge

Woman's Hour - June 13, 2019 11:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 251 ratings
With the second series of the BBC's Killing Eve underway, Villanelle and Eve continue their obsession with each other. We discuss why the obsession women have for other women has become such a familiar dramatic theme – from Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, to Notes on a Scandal - with writer, Joanna Brisc...

Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)

In Our Time - September 06, 2018 08:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratings
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...

The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now — Lyndsey Stonebridge

On Being with Krista Tippett - June 21, 2018 18:34 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last year with literary historian Lyndsey Stonebridge — on thinking and friendship in dark times. She applies the moral clarity of the 20th-century p...

EP 11: Hannah Arendt

I Learned Nothing - October 06, 2017 09:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 157 ratings
Ben explains Hannah Arendt to Pat.

Hannah Arendt

In Our Time: Philosophy - February 02, 2017 11:10 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 793 ratings
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 a...

Hannah Arendt

In Our Time - February 02, 2017 11:10 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratings
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 a...

Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)

New Books Network - June 26, 2016 20:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 128 ratings
How does one “rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in light of the struggles of asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants” (207)? In her new book Rightlessness in An Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants (Oxford Univ...

Peter Baehr, “Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences” (Stanford UP, 2010)

New Books Network - May 16, 2011 14:48 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Contemporary research into illiberal governments draws much inspiration from the writings of Hannah Arendt. In her classic The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Arendt claimed that Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia were not merely typical authoritarian regimes, but rather were despotisms of a ne...

Hannah Arendt pt. 2 - A conversation with Karen Feldman

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - May 15, 2007 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 263 ratings

Hannah Arendt pt. 1 - A conversation with Karen Feldman

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - May 15, 2007 01:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 263 ratings