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Graphic Memoirs of Hannah Arendt

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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

Before Hannah Arendt taught at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960's, she endured Nazi persecution, survived harrowing escapes across Europe, and crossed paths with the likes of Walter Benjamin, Marc Chagall, Bertolt Brecht, W. H. Auden, and Marlene Dietrich. Considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, she is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein joins us to discuss The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, his graphic biography of Arendt: a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose experiences—and potent insights into the human condition—continue to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a citizen in troubling times.

This program was recorded on November 3, 2018.

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