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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hannah Arendt biographer Samantha Rose Hill devised a walking tour of Arendt’s Upper West Side, from the shabby first apartment to that comfortable decorated apartment 12A. In 1974, New York Times ...

In the 1954 essay "The Crisis in Education", German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that crisis can act as an opportunity to revisit questions that have produced presumed and outdated ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...