Samantha Rose Hill Discusses Hannah Arendt’s Exploration of Totalitarianism on BBC Sounds’ Arts & Ideas Podcast
Hannah Arendt.
Samantha Rose Hill, senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, joins host Anne McElvoy among other guests to explore how Arendt tackled the big ideas behind possibly the most dangerous period of the 20th century: anti-Semitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. Hill begins the discussion by reading a piece of Arendt’s poetry from her forthcoming book Hannah Arendt’s Poems (Liveright 2022) and reveals a lesser-known aspect of Arendt’s writing. In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Arendt’s writing that has often focused on mass propaganda, the differences between fact and fiction, and the rise of the strongman leader. Seventy years since Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, they discuss what a rereading of it tells us about our own world. Hill has also recently written a biography, Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books 2021).
Post Date: 09-25-2021
Post Date: 09-25-2021