Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt on Pluralism

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 led her to reflect on the nature of politics, truth, and plurality. Samantha Rose Hill, author of a biography of Arendt, discusses the context for this, and the key features of Arendt's views.

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0:46.0	When Hannah Arrent published Aichmann in Jerusalem
0:48.8	about the trial in Israel of the Nazi Adolf Aichmann,
0:52.2	it caused a sensation and cost them many friends.
0:55.4	Samantha Rose Hill is author of a biography of Hannah Arrent, as she explains the
1:01.4	reaction to Eichmann in Jerusalem made Arrant reflect on the nature of truth in politics.
1:07.0	Samantha Rose Hill, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
1:10.0	Thank you for having me, Nigel. It's a pleasure to talk with you. The topic we're going to talk about is
1:16.8	Hannah Arendt and plurality. Just at the beginning, can we just get clear who Hannah Arend was?
1:23.0	Yes, so Hannah Arrent was a 20th century German Jewish political thinker.
1:29.0	She was born in Linden, Hanover, Germany in 1906.
1:33.3	She studied with Martin Heidegger and Carl Jaspers.
1:37.1	She fled Germany in 1933.
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