Movies
Deep in thought over ‘Hannah Arendt’
June 9, 2013
Director Margarethe von Trotta had to rethink a traditional biopic approach to get at the complexities of the controversial political theorist.
Even decades after her death in 1975, political philosopher Hannah Arendt remains a figure of intense controversy, a situation the woman who said “there are no dangerous thoughts, thinking itself is dangerous” would doubtless approve of.
April 28, 2016
Review: A persuasive force to ‘Hannah Arendt’
June 7, 2013
Barbara Sukowa is remarkable in the title role in a film built around the philosopher’s charged coverage of Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial for the New Yorker.
Books
HANNAH ARENDT/MARTIN HEIDEGGER by Elzbieta Ettinger. (Yale University Press: $18.50; 139 pp.)
Aug. 27, 1995
Letters, 1925-1975 Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger Harcourt: 324 pp., $28 * Responsibility and Judgment Hannah Arendt Schocken: 296 pp., $25 * The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt Schocken: 674 pp., $35
May 16, 2004
In some circles Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy will always be the pariah and the gorgon.
March 12, 1995
Archives
Re “Blaming the Messenger Fools No One,” Commentary, June 7: Robert Scheer overlooks a crucial issue.
June 9, 2005
WHEN philosopher Hannah Arendt died in 1975, she was primarily known as an argumentative woman who coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
Jan. 14, 2007