American Masters, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Friday, June 27, at 9 PM
Saturday, June 28, at 2 AM
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Monday, June 30, at 8 PM
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 (1972) remain among the most important and most-read treatises on the development and impact of totalitarianism and the fault lines in American democracy. Arendt’s reports on the trial of Adolph Eichmann also caused a firestorm of controversy, and its impact is still felt today.
