Hannah Arendt under the microscope

Tel Aviv Review

English - May 15, 2015 07:41 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Dr. Michal Aharony, political philosophy and Holocaust studies professor at Beit Berl Academic College, recently authored Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality and Resistance.

Dr. Aharony talks to host Gilad Halpern about her work, which evaluates the Jewish-German philosopher's theories on totalitarianism through testimonies of Holocaust victims and survivors.