Thinking on Film
Jaspers, Scholem, and Thinking in Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3612055 |
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| Authors | Babette Babich (0000-0002-4499-0718, Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-0300 • E-ISSN: 1558-5441 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/gps.2016.340104 |
| OpenAlex | W2339325356 |
| Language | EN |
Margarethe von Trotta's 2013 film Hannah Arendt, starring Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt raises sociopolitical and specifically philosophical questions in the contentious context of Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem.2 The film itself generated both sociopolitical and philosophical controversy. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of both popular and academic responses to the film have tended to focus on the controversy surrounding the subtitle of Arendt's original book -A Report on the Banality of Evil.3 Even accounts inclined to praise the film emphatically criticize Arendt on the matter of Eichmann in Jersualem. I will here seek to speak about thinking
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Praise · Psychoanalysis · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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