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  title info:
    title: Hannah Arendt: the last interview
    sub title: and other conversations
  name:
    name part: Arendt, Hannah
    name part: 1906-1975
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: Interview
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    internet media type: pdf/application
    extent: 136 S. Ill.
  abstract: "A unique selection of the most significant interviews given by Hannah Arendt, including the last she gave before her death in 1975. Some are published here in English for the first time. Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of "the banality of evil" which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an emigre. Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century's boldest and most original thinkers. As well as Arendt's last interview with French journalist Roger Errera, the volume features an important interview from the early 60s with German journalist Gunter Gaus, in which the two discuss Arendt's childhood and her escape from Europe, and a conversation with acclaimed historian of the Nazi period, Joachim Fest, as well as other exchanges. These interviews show Arendt in vigorous intellectual form, taking up the issues of her day with energy and wit. She offers comments on the nature of American politics, on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, on Israel; remembers her youth and her early experience of anti-Semitism, and then the swift rise of the Hitler; debates questions of state power and discusses her own processes of thinking and writing. Hers is an intelligence that never rests, that demands always of her interlocutors, and her readers, that they think critically. As she puts it in her last interview, just six months before her death at the age of 69, "there are no dangerous thoughts, for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.""--
  note: Hannah Arendt
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arendt, Hannah
      name part: 1906-1975
    genre: Interviews
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arendt, Hannah
      name part: 1906-1975
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: JC251.A74
  classification: 320.5092
  classification: 320
  classification: 08.45
  related item:
    internet media type: pdf/application
  identifier: 9781612193113
  identifier: http://d-nb.info/1047316595/04
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      url: http://d-nb.info/1047316595/04
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 130502
    record change date: 20250221183845.0
    record identifier: 745022405
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger