Hannah Arendt "Zur Person" Full Interview (with English subtitles)

[@philippefritsch1892]

What is also deeply impressive is the quality in which she can express her thoughts. She talks like an open book: complete mastery of thought and language altogether, perfect balance. Means and goals have really developped side by side: up to such level…

[@tubergetrude333]

thank you this was my first exposure to Arendt. And she is one of those rare people that when interviewed you hang on every word.

[@helenemasour9256]

I cannot have enough of this face, of this voice. I feel endless love for this lady. Her German is gorgeous and I am so glad I learned it enough to understand.

[@hurtigheinz3790]

I'm native German and I still have to concentrate on everything she says to understand. It's not a nice chat you can easily follow while doing something else. P.S.: I'm impressed by every non native German speaker who understands what she says.

[@helenemasour9256]

@@hurtigheinz3790 na ja? Mein Deutsch ist nicht perfekt aber ich verstehe sie relative gut, besser als 'normale Leute,' vielleicht weil ich Professorin and Akademiker bin?

[@hurtigheinz3790]

@@helenemasour9256 Wahrscheinlich :) Ich meine auch nicht, dass es schwierige und lange Formulierungen sind. Es ist die Bedeutung und der Kontext ihr sorgfältig gewählten Worte.

[@helenemasour9256]

@@hurtigheinz3790 Klar. Man muss mehr als ein Mal hören. Ich vermisse Deutsch!

[@hurtigheinz3790]

@@helenemasour9256 Wenn Sie herausfinden wollen wie gut Ihr Deutsch ist, dann kann ich hier auf KZbin Videos von "Jochen Malmsheimer" empfehlen. Nicht der Anspruch einer Hannah Arendt, aber ein Wortakrobat und Kabarettist, dem auch einige deutsche Muttersprachler nicht folgen können.

[@garyolson2676]

I needed to hear Hannah Arendt's wisdom to help me find my bearings during what seems to be a dangerous time in my country. I only hope I can summon the courage to stand firmly for compassion and humanity and resist the dark forces of hatred.

[@I-cannot-make-it-prettier]

I was thinking something similar (as a migrant in Britain, which can probably be as unsettling as living in Trump's America). I need to start reading her works. I stumbled upon Hannah Arendt at the public library today. It was sheer coincidence that made me spot the DVD of the film about her displayed on a shelf, but I already happened to be reading "Cruelty" by Kathleen Taylor - haven't gotten far yet. Taylor points out, more or less, that people use something called otherization. I think she first explains it as a way for people to distance themselves from cruelty, namely by seeing cruelty as something that is only done by evil others - allowing them to consider what they do themselves as "not cruelty". There is a different form of otherization at work as well, she then continues and that is probably a more familiar form of otherization. I put it as follows. You can do anything you want to a banana peel, and people like Donald Trump and also Theresa May and many others essentially declare that certain human beings are like banana peels. I had never personally experienced something like that before I moved to Britain and it's had a very profound effect on my life. It is opening my eyes to what many people experience, for a wide range of reasons. It scares me. It also often makes me powerless and angry. I was working on creating an online course as a way to do my bit in this area, but I sometimes struggle with keeping my own hurt and anger out of it, depending on what is going on in my life. (I was creating a course video today and ended up yelling very angrily into the camera that I was fed up with all the local crap.) I'd been trying to keep my personal experiences out of it and that was probably the wrong thing to do. So what Arendt says about having to defend yourself as a Jew when you are being attacked for being a Jew is giving me pause. I initially had the feeling that standing up for myself and calling out what is happening could be making things worse (because it felt divisive, and as finger-pointing), but I have increasingly been getting the feeling that I was wrong. It is what it is and me trying to ignore it or making it prettier than it is is not going to make it go away. To the contrary. And it isn't me "being whiny" either. Far from.

[@casrifay]

Which country are you from?

[@Lena-uh3ky]

excellent comment

[@luciferin22]

How did it go?

[@cebruthius]

Good job otherizing those "dark forces of hatred" I guess

[@ShalomFreedman]

This is the best interview I have seen or heard with Hannah Arendt. I learned much from it and came to understand her better through it. Her opening disclaimer of her not being a philosopher but rather a political thinker set the tone for what followed. She spoke it seemed to me in an honest forthright way about her childhood, her early education, her youth, her reaction as a Jew to the anti- Semitism she faced from childhood, her reaction and action at the Nazis rise to power, her understanding of her identity as a Jew, her relation to Germany and feeling herself above all connected to its language but not to its sense of peoplehood, her work with Youth Aliyah and involvement in 'action' in the world, her quest for understanding as the keynote of her work, her shock at coming to know in 1943 of the death -camps, the central importance of 'friendship' in her life and work, and much else. For me it was of enormous interest to see how she appeared and acted as a person. I have read almost all of her work and have greatly admired most of it.It is unfortunate that the work she is most famous and infamous for insulted and caused more anguish to those I am sure she did not intend to cause anguish to, the survivors of the most monstrous crime in human history. Her visible discomfort at responding to a question about this in this interview also was revealing about one whose sin seemed to be emotional detachment from the victims. Having heard her once many years ago and not really seeing her or hearing her close up I greatly appreciated this interview.

[@TheRJS007]

You're about to spend a splendid hour with one of the 20th Century's seminal thinkers. Thanks "Stack Altoids" for uploading this treasure.

[@urbanviii6557]

It is a treasure indeed. Never did I think that I would encounter this interview. What a gift that we have this,

[@thomassweeney1258]

For reasons that baffle me I find Hannah Arendt fascinating. Her intellectual work is way above my total comprehension, but again her life and times leave me in awe.

[@Lydioski]

She is fantastic.I am in love with her and wanted to know her more and more, read all her books, listen to her and grow thanks to her. Thank you for this program.

[@chopin65]

I am always astounded by her courage. How many people can claim they have suffered their convictions and lived the life of a mind completely as Hannah Arendt?

[@lunavistapaola]

few

[@chopin65]

Paola Greco She had a courage as rare as Plato. She didn't give a fig about the status quo, and understood social duty better than any thinker of her century. I wish I had met her. I would thank her for her writing, and would say to all I know: We can do anything, but we must think about it first, and foremost, about our duties to society. More than ever, now that #Trump is the US President, we need people like her.

[@trilocicero4062]

​@@chopin65 completely agreed. I, too, wish I was born early so that I could meet her.

[@kot3291]

@@chopin65 is it why you posed the question in the original comment, so that you can write down what you wanted in form of an answer....

[@kimonodragon7834]

@@kot3291 Now why would you ask such a convoluted question, ffs? Jeezuz, buddy!

[@elizabethmacdonald96]

Love this woman! Absolutely fantastic interview.

[@peterkingsley8736]

A deeply affecting, revealing interview of a human being's struggle to understand everything possible about her own existence and its meaning to the rest of the world. Her description of her feelings of joy upon hearing German spoken after the war and yet the alienation this made her aware of is beyond tears. And this in some aspects she clearly implies is all our fates. " Gem"utlich zu sein" lovely as it is, can only be a form of comforting illusion.

[@kot3291]

she strikes with the modesty and simplicity, i expected her to be difficult to listen to, her sentences are the opposite of "complicated", her reasoning is right on the head. To the contrary, it's the interviewer whose questions are complicated and they arise from a complex pairing and matching of facts from Arendt life, which then Arendt demystifies with her smile and wisdom

[@simonatheod6867]

i would say that's something that mostly comes across in the translation, in german her sentences are actually very long and complex

[@jonronnquist]

What a relief it is to finally see an unmolested comments thread on KZbin. This video is something special for that reason alone. Of course, it's special in its own right. Listening to her speak, I cannot help but lament the vacuum of public wisdom we suffer today.

[@RiazMotlagh]

Watch Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky

[@hipposeeds]

The translation is quite impressive. It does not, as any translation has limitations to, portray completely the beauty of how she expresses herself. What a beautiful German from an amazing mind. People have said that these interviews don't exist and wonder why. It also lies in how the interviewer is. He is so full of respect and even when he asks more difficult questions, he does so with respect and this sets a tone for the subject to answer in a totally different way.

[@sick9990101]

Gunter Gaus (in the seventies representing West Germany in Ost Berlin) is not interrupting and is prepared. A big difference to the Tosser community called journalism nowadays.

[@drjohnson98]

In addition to how brilliantly she speaks, observe how intently she listens. She focuses on the interviewer and hears what he is saying, then responds. She had so much to say but was perfectly willing to hear what the other person had to say.

[@deanime23]

such an inspirational woman! I was captivated by every word she said in this interview and really enjoy learning more about her

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

I think I like her and her journey was a most exceptional one. The intellectual scalpel with which she analysed ideas thoughts Emotions is amazing and marvellous.

[@Chuck45638]

I am English,however I am also partly German.I admire Hannhah and her work,I am glad that a film has been made in her honour.She laments creativity and imagination. Good,very good. Gut,sehr gut.

[@jancoil4886]

Impressive. Compare the quality of questions and her answers to what we routinely see today.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

jan coil - Oh, I don’t know about that...have you seen Wendy Williams interview Kim Kardashian or Bill O’Reilly do Ivanka? Stellar.

[@antonburkin9089]

Your hollow comment is a perfect example of today's communicational routine

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Anton Burkin - Nonsense. The riveting content and unrivalled eloquence of today’s talk shows would have Demosthenes drooling from the steps of the Pnyx and Cicero green with envy on the Senate floor.

[@veritasetlibertas7889]

@@dorianphilotheates3769 LOL

[@veritasetlibertas7889]

If we could bring her back today, I would have loved to see Jimmy Fallon interviewing Arendt.

[@srdjanavram9504]

Every once in a while I watch this interview. It is pinned to my favorites for years. It is remarkable how human nature has not changed over time for one iota. Takes so little for it to come to light... rhymes, repeats. At least I have no illusions of chasing "why?" and "who started it?" and neither did she.

[@Popperite]

This was just great. Thanks for uploading this. I understand German as well as English although none of the aforementioned languages is my mother tongue... I do love the the stately and polite way Günter and she use the German language however. Wish I could speak it so well.... But as Hannah said, you keep a distance from languages that are not your mother language. I enjoyed this!

[@zukozerakili8992]

Wow, thanks for the subtitles. This is one of the greatest philosophical interviews I have heard or watched in a long time. What an incredible woman. This is powereful and very educational. Thanks for sharing!

[@miguelserveto7391]

However brilliantly, at times astonishingly, capable Dr. Arendt was at philosophical and political abstractions, she brought it home, at the last, with her references to the importance of friendships, personal intimacies and that which is human in all of us. Though the sub-titles are apparently in part inaccurate, according to German-speaking writers of comments, I am glad that, at any rate, some were provided for us speakers of English. Thank you for the upload.

[@agnieszkagralewicz8644]

Thanks a lot! She was extremely independent in thinking. This is evident even in her body language, facial expressions, not only in her books. And the immortal cigarette :)

[@drjohnson98]

Thanks for posting. I've read and admired her for years but it never occurred to me to seek out a video of her. My esteem for her is doubled. It is one thing to write clearly about the big ideas that she did, another to speak so clearly to question on these topics as she does here. Truly a brilliant person. Like others, I am also deeply impressed by the quality of the interview and level of the discussion which is very much of a bygone era on American TV.

[@gomezrock12]

what a woman.. arguably the most enlightened mind of the 20th century. How we miss her clarity, in these dark times that we live in

[@nuqwestr]

I doubt very much her thoughts would align with yours in this "time we live in", she had a facility for irony and laughter, said as much in this interview. She was criticized for it then, and would be now.

[@DjBraguinhaKPN01]

She's my inspiration as a teacher.

[@phs1176]

Was für differenzierte und klare Aussagen. ...ein vertrauen, ein grundsätzliches Vertrauen.. in "den Menschen"..so richtig und doch so schwer!

[@ElSmusso]

I just love this woman. Hannah Arendt.

[@primawirawan5850]

somehow deep talks seems cooler in german, especially with smoking..

[@operaforlife6551]

I felt that too, but I'm slightly ashamed about it :))

[@veritasetlibertas7889]

Jah!

[@charlesbourgoigne2130]

I heard even philosophy students who are German read the English books about German philosophers because it is easier to understand than the original writings

[@alejandromatos7860]

Yeah, I've almost never been able to take an english speaker seriously.

[@monicafalcione7984]

@@charlesbourgoigne2130 Could you tell me the word in german translated as venture? Thank you!

[@sirasy]

what a great pleasure to listen to such schöne gepflegt hoch deutsch! SCHÖN!

[@sick9990101]

Karl Jasper is even better (aber der spricht ja richtig platt (deutsch)

[@TheDAT573]

It would be lovely, if there were English speaking videos of Hannah Arendt. She was a fluid English speaker. I wish Hannah was still alive and never died.

[@poodlesrock6552]

She was really one of those of kind, who stood up by their intellect and courage. Where are these leaders now?

[@thesceptic1018]

I think I could learn German by just listening to her

[@claes-magnusbrahugoh482]

Är

[@hurtigheinz3790]

The subtitles don't really fit what she says though. She's way more eloquent in German and knows how to make small distinctions. The Engilsh translation is a broad summary of what she says. Not wrong - just not covering her little winks.

[@mixerD1-]

Total honestly and humility from this lady. Doubt we'll see her like again.

[@frab88]

This is pure intellectual gold! Thank you

[@thebalance6869]

Kind of a funny comment having heard Hannah's opinions of intellectualism....but, I think I now understand her humor in a way.

[@nyumbrahok]

Thank you for sharing this footage.

[@michaelcollins7738]

I love the hard pulling on the cigarettes, both of them! Brilliant interview and great questions from the interviewer, I could listen to her for hours.

[@MinorSwing-qu3ku]

이런 영상이 있었다니. 미쳤다.... I am so grateful for this video. thanks to the uploader.

[@tomaxi007]

What a fantasitic thinker, this woman. Karl Jaspers can be proud to have had such a nobel student and what she has achieved through him. Hannah Arendt is as precise in her assessment and as objective as I ever heard from anyone else.

[@cb4038]

So much light dearest Hannah

[@BrechiHH81]

thanks for uploading the full interview

[@antonioschannel1714]

Gleich zu Beginn wirkt sie so symphatisch. Und alles andere. Einfach schön, zuzuhöhren

[@manibabai2115]

As someone who speaks German as a foreign language , she can express her complex ideas and opinions in such a simple and comprehensive manner that puts you in awe! And as someone who his own country is ruined by a regime like Nazism, hearing and reading her wisdom on personal responsibility under dictatorship is just enlightening!

[@nuqwestr]

? What country do you live in that is being ruined like Nazism? She fled in 1933 before the dictatorship began? She was in America and only heard about Auschwitz and believed it in 1943. What on earth are you talking about?

[@helenamoniqueclarke8135]

I think that you have to read this interview and the forced humility/''humbleness'' of it through the eyes of a woman who spent years under severe criticism for her painfully honest ideas. She was a philosopher in that she concerned herself with the absolute truth of reality. That is philosophy. Perhaps her time with Heidegger made her shy away from the association as well, but I doubt she would have allowed such weakness to deter her intellectual pursuits. Besides, it's simply nomenclature. This is what happens to people who speak truths the masses are not ready to hear yet. This is why true revolutionaries are usually killed. Frankly, Im surprised she wasnt.

[@philippefritsch1892]

I wished to point out one aspect in praise of Hannah Arendt's intellectual probity: her expression, the way she speaks, her vocabulary. It is very easy to attack any german speaking person on ground of vocabluary. German language cannot leave much place to ambiguity because of its sturcture: it is naturally clear. It is no language to play with. The only possible shadings may stem from a more or less complicated syntaxical strucutre (that often sounds ridiculous) or from a word that is more or less misused. Many people, as Hannah Arendt or Heidegger, have often been accused of all sorts of evils on the ground of specific words. This is intellectual abuse, perverse. One of the best examples is the word "Judentum" that simply means "ensemble of things relating to what is jewish". The word became abundantly used by Hitler in a purely antisemitic context. It had to become a synonym for evil. It is then very easy to accuse people of antisemitism, once they use the term, though they use it accuratly, wherever Hitler had been its corruptor, using it in a way that lead to crime. One should therefore keep in mind the outstanding work of Victor Klemperer on the language of the III Reich: LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii). It is really sad to see people, nowadays, pretending to fight Hitler's thoughrts and deeds, whereas they don't hesitate using his vile language techniques.

[@bethcorkabi]

Philippe Fritsch The specificity of German words lend absolute clarity to technical writing(my area). As you pointed out, the German language leaves little room for ambiguity. If I desire to understand a concept precisely, a paper written in German will accomplish that beautifully. I cringe whenever Ihear a German word used in a situation for which it was not intended.

[@philippefritsch1892]

Ambroid Phlexes Even in French, which is almost opposite to German for its flexibility, vocabulary remains extremely precise as far as the context is well built up. It is just like surfing on top of a wave, since the listener, or reader, knows that it could so easily be different. And, as Albert Camus pointed out: « A mal nommer les choses, on ajoute au malheur du monde ». No doubt Hannah Arendt was aware of that…

[@herbertwells8757]

Philippe Fritsch Hannah Arendt was more than fluent in English (although she spoke with a strong German accent). Her ideas can be fairly and reasonably evaluated or attacked or defended (or, for that matter, unfairly and unreasonably) without recourse to German.

[@Neuroneos]

@@philippefritsch1892 Hence why Camus was no poet...

[@amanmangal4332]

Right

[@zamoratelevision]

Quede gratamente impresionado con la entrevista.

[@haydeesorensen407]

Habe nie die Mutter Schprache vergessen.Grosse Frau.

[@hurtigheinz3790]

Haydee oder Heidi? :)

[@paulvandijck6476]

Ein sehr weiser, feingefühliger Mensch.

[@PeterLunowPL]

what a wonderful lady ,I am spellbound by her

[@JamanWerSonst]

5:58 "Wenn ich arbeite, dann bin ich an Wirkung nicht interessiert" "Wenn die Arbeit fertig ist?" "Tja, dann bin ich damit fertig." People like her have always been rare.

[@danielj8858]

exhales smoke from the nostrils as a dragon boss lady that she was

[@nccumolly1125]

Underaged comment

[@thebalance6869]

@@nccumolly1125 Arrogant comment (Ok, come on people, let's keep this going, seems like a fun game, trash each other.....yay humanity! Do me, do me!!!!)

[@utestrasse]

Vielen Dank!! Grossartige Interview. Ich will verstehen!! 7:50 Uber die Wirkung:.."Männer wollen immer furchtbar gerne wirken. Ich sehe dass gewissermassen von aussen ich selber wirken, nein! ich will verstehen !! Ich will verstehen und wenn andere Menschen verstehen im selben Sinne wie ich verstanden habe dann gib mir das eine befriedigun wie ein Heimatgefühl"

[@utestrasse]

Ganz erklärend auch für mich ist ihre Unterscheidung zwischen Liebe und Zugehörigkeit, wieviele schmerzhafte Streitigkeiten und Missverständnisse in der Welt könte man dadurch verhindern. Saludos desde Buenos Aires PD: Entschuldigung für eventuelle Fehler.

[@tunesmithdainfinitytunegat1691]

She is such a motherly woman, she had a voice at a time when the natural world was preserved in words and the artist had to be a witness to more than the function of a medium of media programs

[@WA-ek9mu]

motherly seems a strange word for her. I think mentor would be better word to describe her

[@tweedledee2781]

@@WA-ek9mu Oh stop nitpicking ffs 🙄

[@WA-ek9mu]

@@tweedledee2781 This is not nitpicking. Mother and mentor are completely different. Are you illiterate?

[@tweedledee2781]

@@WA-ek9mu Yes it IS nitpicking! Are you an inbred idjit?🙄

[@annatique8904]

At 4:29-4:39 (subtitle gap) she is saying: "My opinion has always been that there are some professions that are not appropriate for women, that do not suit them, if you will."

[@Carbono_Tungstênio]

thnx so much 4 uploading

thanks a lot! Great interview!

[@veritasetlibertas7889]

Her statements about friendship and politics are so a propos today.

[@costernocht]

Thank you kindly for the reference. I just sent a copy of 'The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr' to a friend. I know he'll love it.

[@TheDAT573]

If Hannah had stopped smoking, she might have lasted longer. Hannah was such a treasure, priceless gift, I wish she had not died so soon.

[@lucascheirador]

German is so relaxing to hear, so suitable to talk philosophy...

[@gamer-ff6mh]

True. But it can be totally forced to sound well in places it shouldn't as well. Take for example the Champagne aria when sung by Fischer-Diskeau. It's simply superhuman that this aria can sound well in German.

[@lucascheirador]

@@gamer-ff6mh Wow. I'm about to listen to it, then.

[@KCN8er]

The Rise of Totalitarianism is one of the only books I've read twice.

[@antonburkin9089]

You should to read any book at least twice

[@worried2395]

What I mean by the first comment is that professions tend to be viewed as occupations that have licensing by the state to some degree to permit the provisioning of services for which money might be exchanged. Thus, law, medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, barbering (in the US), & truck driving (in the US it requires special licensing) are professions. Anyone, however, can become a historian, mathematician, or philosopher without a license from the government.

[@SammiLowman]

It's a shame, but at the same time consistent with her character and life experience, that the interviewer spoke to her in such a blunt and ungenerous way. Perhaps this is merely the style of the Zur Person series, or of serious German communication, but I could not help but detect an element of disdain, however subtle, in the way he asks the questions, interrupts her, and constantly brings up her womanhood as a difficulty when she clearly didn't see it as such. I admire the easy grace and naturalness with which she handled her answers.

[@neadaniolair3368]

This was the interviewing style on "serious" German television in those years, in a recoil from the frenetic media propaganda of the nazi years. I think you are doing Gaus an injustice, he does an excellent job. His seriousness might come over as severe but it is never disrespectful, on the contrary. His questions are ideal to get her to talk, he doesn 't interrupt, and engages with her answers rather than just ticking off one question after another. And you can see how Arendt herself, who is a bit defensive an ill at ease at the outset, becomes more and more relaxed and open with him over the course of the hour.

[@Banefane]

Sehr gutes Interviewe!

[@federicadegliesposti8244]

in Reply to misscatt: (Cit from Wikipedia) :"Co-ordinated is the translation of Gleichschaltung (meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line"), is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of society. Author Claudia Koontz uses the term to explain the transformation of ordinary Germans, who had not, before 1933, been more prejudiced than their counterparts elsewhere, into indifferent bystanders to and collaborators with persecution." Arendt here is talking about friends (intellectuals) that started "voluntary" adhere to the Nazi doctrine and way of thinking.

[@nataliesirnova6865]

Необычайной и трагической судьбы человек. Великая Ханна Арендт.

[@jeanstrubjucker7885]

Que personaje mas brillante

[@Eternaldream00]

Why do i find the fact that both of them are smoking so relaxing? Anyway she was my most favourite political theorist at college.

[@haydeesorensen407]

Formidável.

[@aquariandude3195]

Amazing woman with a very intelligent , enquiring mind...I'm suspicious of some the subtitles though...would be awesome to understand German !

[@thomHD]

Stunning intellect. I like her and Isaiah Berlin best for whirlwind tours of social & political theory in the mid-20th century.

[@saeed9999]

Isaiah Berlin has a great online interview with Bryan Magee where he starts Magee's series (which totalled about 30 interviews) -- almost all are available on youtube.

[@Ronindennis]

Unfortunately it's not complete, a part about The Human Condition has been cut. The original German version is 12 minutes longer.

[@ldcldc6371]

Would you know where to find it?

[@lionrock3380]

such lucidity, such intelligence and rigor. Arendt is an intellectual giant. Pity about the sloppy translation...but i assume those who know her work can figure out for themselves what the translation flaws are

[@wertrager]

We start something. We weave our strand into a network of relations. What comes of it we never know.

[@TheDAT573]

Hannah would have had a pair of healthy lungs and the world would have had Hannah for much longer. Vital people,like Hannah, that make worthwhile contributions to society should live longer than others.

[@rafaeldeconti]

"The Europe of the pre-Hitler period? I don’t long for that...What has remained? The language….The German language is the essential thing that has remained…” (Hannah Arendt)

[@PersonaErazed]

Hannah Arendt in conversation with Günter Gaus. Personal - portraits in questions and answers. 30 min first broadcast. ARD 28 Oct. 1964. Günter Gaus in conversation with Hannah Arendt. "Thinking while talking and smoking watch - Early interviews with Günter Gaus on two DVDs," The Friday, August 19, 2005.

[@PersonaErazed]

+PersonaErazed copied from German wikipedia de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#Interviews_und_H.C3.B6rtexte

[@lleenniiccaa]

The smartest woman ever!

[@aluciddreams]

what a beautiful mind.

[@lartemifabene]

Thanks for this video

[@krismartinez2334]

The World will never change, to many don't live and let live

[@israelm2590]

War ein bischen schwierig zu ihre Wörte verstehen denn mein deutsch ist schlecht und auch mein Englisch. Aber das End war sehr schön troztdem ich hat viele mal geseht.

[@felikskluzniak174]

"co-ordination": looks like a mistranslation, should be "collaboration".

[@200mccsa]

"Co-ordination" is the word she tended to use in her English writings, e.g. in "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

[@monimas32]

breathtaking

[@forest06007]

0:55:21 Beautiful statement about the cost of freedom.

[@pawelkrakow5547]

Was für eine wunderschöne Persönlichkeit.... Heutzutage gibt es nur mehr die Klöppel im "Theather der politische Korrektichkeit"... ruhe in Frieden Hannah. Amen

[@LewisKlim]

Unsure if Arendt ever "took a stand against philosophy is really a stand against Heidegger". It was simply a matter of luck, that Heidegger completed his great work in philosophy during the 1920s. The fact that he personally became an extremely odious person, (especially toward his own teacher,mentor and rival, Husserl), swallowed the Nationalist Socialist propaganda whole,like many who loathed the "tolerance" of Weimar etc. demonstrates her oft quoted and misunderstood point about "banality".

[@lerai007]

Great interview indeed

[@DieFliegeinderSuppe]

Besonders interessant ist ihre Interpretation von Zugehörigkeit, wobei sie zwar zwischen Abstammung und Interessengruppe unterscheidet, aber keinen von beiden Liebe zugesteht. Diese gehört ausschliesslich Familie und Freunden. Alles andere führt letztendlich zum Falschen. Fantastische Aussage!!

[@aaronjancayanan460]

Action is what matters. Though labor and work will forever be there, it is action that will change the world.

[@TheDAT573]

At least, this Hannah Arendt video has English subtitles. I can turn off the audio and read the English subtitles and hope it is accurate.

[@karlschwinbarger105]

You say you have the "full interview" from the program "Zur Person" on the 28th of October 1964. But this interview is 1:12:20 minutes long on other internet sites, 12 minutes longer than the 1:00:25 minutes posted here. What did you leave out, and, why. Of course a wonderful interview with a thinker. If only Americans had the interest in deep thoughts that people apparently had, somewhere, 56 years ago!

[@ClaxNVEST]

Ich danke dir.

[@BigHeartBreak93]

Sometimes the translation slightly differs from the correct german.

[@kmwaterbury]

+BigHeartBreak93 thanks for the heads up

[@BigHeartBreak93]

+Kyle Waterbury All good.

[@tomshaffner6282]

Sometimes it's a lot more than slightly...

[@laurapop9884]

The most interesting part where she talks about labour and consumerism is cut in this version! Nearly 12 minutes missing... here is are six of the missing minutes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5jdg4xoaNaYj9U

[@usacut6968]

Excerpt (Arendt/Gaus, 1964, interview) Gaus: In einem Ihrer wichtigsten Werke, der "Vita activa" oder "Vom tätigen Leben", kommen Sie zu dem Schluß, Frau Arendt, daß die Neuzeit den Gemeinsinn, also den Sinn für die Erstrangigkeit des Politischen, entthront hat. Sie bezeichnen als die modernen gesellschaftlichen Phänomene die Entwurzelung und Verlassenheit des Massenmenschen und den Triumph eines Menschentyps, der im bloßen Arbeits- und Konsumvorgang sein Genügen findet. Ich habe dazu zwei Fragen. Zunächst: Wieweit ist eine philosophische Erkenntnis solchen Grades auf persönliche Erfahrungen angewiesen, die den Denkprozeß überhaupt erst in Gang bringen? Arendt: Ich glaube nicht, daß es irgendeinen Denkvorgang gibt, der ohne persönliche Erfahrung möglich ist. Alles Denken ist Nachdenken, der Sache nachdenken. Nicht? Ich lebe in der modernen Welt, und selbstverständlich habe ich in der modernen Welt meine Erfahrungen. Im übrigen ist das ja von vielen anderen auch festgestellt worden. Sehen Sie, die Sache mit dem nur noch Arbeiten und Konsumieren, die ist deshalb so wichtig, weil sich darin wieder eine Weltlosigkeit konturiert. Es liegt einem nichts mehr daran, wie die Welt aussieht. Gaus: "Welt" immer verstanden als Raum, in dem Politik entsteht. Arendt: Jetzt noch viel größer gefaßt als der Raum, in dem Dinge öffentlich werden, als Raum, in dem man wohnt und der anständig aussehen muß. In dem natürlich auch Kunst erscheint. In dem alles Mögliche erscheint. Sie besinnen sich, Kennedy hat versucht, den Raum des Öffentlichen ganz entscheidend zu erweitern, indem er die Dichter und die sonstigen Taugenichtse ins Weiße Haus geladen hat. Also das alles könnte noch mit in diesen Raum gehören. Im Arbeiten und Konsumieren jedoch ist der Mensch wirklich völlig auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen. Gaus: Auf das Biologische. Arendt: Aufs Biologische und auf sich selbst. Und da haben Sie den Zusammenhang mit der Verlassenheit. Im Arbeitsprozeß entsteht eine eigentümliche Verlassenheit. Ich kann jetzt hier im Moment nicht darauf eingehen, das würde uns zu weit führen. Und diese Verlassenheit ist dieses auf sich selbst Zurückgeworfenwerden, in dem dann gewissermaßen das Konsumieren a die Stelle aller eigentlich relevanten Tätigkeiten tritt. Excerpt (text)

[@worried2395]

The most bizarre things to my perhaps wrong modern eyes are 1) that philosophy is a profession (few would say that about literary critics or theologians), 2) that it is unusual for a woman to be a philosopher.

[@lauridias101]

A big part towards the end, before the question on Jaspers is skiped. Pity..

[@sergiolebruce5811]

Muy interesante, gracias!