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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

PHILOSOPHER Oct 14, 1906 - Dec 4, 1975

AMERICAN MASTERS FILM

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (Jun 2025)

Written Features

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
What Hannah Arendt taught the president of Bard College
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Hannah Arendt taught us that civil disobedience is essential to American democracy
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
How Hannah Arendt’s warnings about citizenship and statelessness echo today
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Hannah Arendt biography and career timeline

Video Features

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny -- Why McCarthyism was familiar to Hannah Arendt CLIP: 2:00
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Why McCarthyism was familiar to Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was teaching at Berkeley when McCarthyism took hold of the United States.
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny -- Hannah Arendt’s reflections on being a refugee CLIP: 1:14
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on being a refugee
Hannah Arendt became a stateless person in 1933 upon fleeing Germany to France.
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny -- What sparked Hannah Arendt's ideas behind "The Origins of Totalitarianism" CLIP: 2:49
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
What sparked Hannah Arendt's ideas behind "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
Hannah Arendt came up with ideas for “The Origins of Totalitarianism” while observing Hitler.
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny -- How Hannah Arendt developed the concept of "the banality of evil" CLIP: 3:39
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
How Hannah Arendt developed the concept of "the banality of evil"
Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny WATCH: 1:23:45
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political writers of modern times.