Can a filmmaker make a biopic with a book as its protagonist? Margarethe Von Trotta’s film, Hanna Arendt, is a film with a limited scope, following Arendt during the publication of her book Eichmann ...

Arendt (1906–1975), among the last century's most eminent political philosophers, never lived to complete the final volume of her comprehensive tome The Life of the Mind , entitled "Judging." This ...

What happens when democracy teeters on the edge — and how can we resist the slide into tyranny? In a timely new episode of American Masters premiering Friday, June 27, at 9 p.m., on PBS, executive ...

Hannah Arendt was a good friend. When she was a teenage girl, she was forbidden by her mother and stepfather from visiting an acquaintance named Anne Mendelssohn, but she went anyway, walking to a ...

Hannah Arendt became a stateless person in 1933 upon fleeing Germany to France. Upon fleeing Germany to France in 1933 without her official papers, Hannah Arendt became a stateless person. After ...

“Hannah Arendt” looks through a narrow window at the early 1960’s, when the German-born Jewish philosophy professor drew controversial conclusions in her 1963 New Yorker coverage of the Adolf Eichmann ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Long before Adolf Eichmann’s court case for war crimes got under way in April 1961, it was destined to be a ...

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, edited and translated (with Genese Grill) by Samantha Rose Hill (Liveright, 208 pp., $26.99) Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library ...

Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of Hannah Arendt is a film about ideas that remains intellectually detached from them. Barbara Sukowa in Hannah Arendt By signing up, you confirm that you are over the ...