Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
A documentary on Hannah Arendt , one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism which continue to resonate today. « Hannah Arendt : Facing Tyranny » [1h23] « Hannah Arendt : Facing Tyranny » takes a closer look at one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee . Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt’s time as a political prisoner, refugee and survivor in Europe informed her groundbreaking insights into the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism. Her major works, The Origins of Totalitarianism ( 1951 ), The Human Condition ( 1958 ), Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil ( 1963 ), On Revolution ( 1963 ) and Crises of the Republic...