2025-01-29
22 分钟This is Philosophy Bites with me, David.
Edmonds and me, Nigel Warburton.
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hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Germany and died in 1975 in the U.S.
she established her reputation with the Origins of Totalitarianism, which appeared in 1951.
This set out to explain the preconditions of totalitarianism and how it differed from from other types of government.
Lindsay Stonebridge is the author of a new book on Arendt.
This interview on the link between Arendt's life and work is part of Bio Bytes, our miniseries within Philosophy Bites.
Lindsay Stonebridge, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
Thank you Nigel.
It's great to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is the life and mind of Hannah Arendt.
Before we get into that briefly, could you just say something about who she was?
Who was Hannah Arendt?
She was many women, but I think most listeners will know her through two books, the Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, a report on the Banality of Evil.
What some people may not know is she lived the themes she wrote about.
She lived through totalitarianism and her battle for understanding that phenomenon.
The phenomenon of modern evil was also part of her way of living.
So she began as a thinker, as a philosopher, as I understand it, as a student of Heidegger's.
And that's a really interesting element of her life.