The Last Interview with Hannah Arendt (1973 English & French)

Hannah Arendt discusses various things in an interview with Roger Errera over several days in October 1973 for French TV (ORTF), which was then broadcast in 1974. The translation and captions are my own. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. More Hannah Arendt: • Hannah Arendt
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[@paulhoffmann3405]

"Unnecessary dramatic music" lol. Fantastic interview!

[@thadmayfield5289]

Wow (@ 00:07:18) "W know that the greatest danger of tyranny is, of course, the executive." (This lady was brilliant, to state the obvious.)

[@johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273]

Thank you for sharing!! Really appreciate this KZbin channel!!

[@TheSam661]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[@gabrielacosta7956]

I just love arendt!!!!! One of my all time favorite philosophers.

[@igor-d.6008]

22:30 “we sit at this table and speek freely” Could you imagine doing such an interview today?

[@RenatusChristoph]

The Americans themselves do not understand these simple facts anymore.

[@Junksaint]

I assure you, some do. Some of us read books by the stack still, not that's it's doing a great deal of help 😮‍💨 reading parenti and che now

[@RenatusChristoph]

@@Junksaint Yes, you are right. The same could be said of Danes in Denmark where I come from. Some do. Not that it helps much, no. How address this problem and what to do about it? Have you thought about it? I have. To some degree. I think there's issues within the rule of democracy which aren't obvious to the lawgivers nor even to agents within The Federal Court System - not to say the majority of the people.

[@janetewin4819]

@@RenatusChristoph tell me more… I think the same way… democracy? We follow what is presented to us without questioning whether is good to us or not… by the food “we” eat and make us sick to the medications we take to make us more sick…to the kids that now is getting addicted in their own rooms in their private casinos, and no one say anything…freedom? We can’t get freedom if there is no awareness!

[@meisterwue]

Thanks for sharing.....her books are in my library

[@rhqstudio4107]

so applicable to today so far in the future from this recording

[@jorobertson160]

At the end, as at one point early on, Arendt begins to talk about how criminality has overtaken all branches of the American state government and suggests earlier on that this suggests the decline of the US state into totalitarianism. This is in response to what the Pentagon Papers meant. She begins to talk again of this and is blotted out by the loud music at the end of the film. Her view that totalitarianism is distinguished from dictatorship by the fact that earlier totalitarian states, such as Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, punished dissidents for being in agreement with ideological tenets held by the ruling class. They said, ‘Yes’ not ´No’ to the regime’s declared values. Wasn’t she about to make the same understanding in relation to the American ruling class’s punishment of all dissidents today who openly defend democracy, who say ‘Yes’ to those values, but in a state that has become totalitarian in a perversely hidden way, they shall, and have been, savagely repressed. The history of Wikkileaks and Julian Assange surely bear this out. Free Assange. Stop his extradition from Britain where he is held, uncharged, in a high security jail by the British state at the bequest of the US. Say No to state torture for the man who published the plight of the Guantanamo prisoners!

[@cheri238]

What a great documentary to hear Hanah Arendt's last interview in her own words. Thank you very much. She made her arguments and was an important thinker. One may agree to disagree respectfully and not hate. She was an extraordinary thinker. She burned her bridges with many and remained not to allow others to dominate her. What will happen now in 2023 with all this corruption of psychopaths of greed ? New ideas now are a must, and many are trying here in America. America has to wake up, and only one can do that for oneself with thunderstorms of wars are blasting and all humanity is at stake. Racism is wrong in any form. Power is a disaster when ignited with greed for more wealth as others are starving, as we now have an inverted Tolertarism with Neo-liberalism and with neo-cons authoritarianism . What a disastrous choice. New ideas are a must now and many are trying. Elections are coming in 2024. America has to make a choice and for me it is Cornel West. Men and women with a moral consciousness in all nations of understanding with intelligence of a moral compass with torches that may light our world for all humanity. ❤

[@frederic834]

Yes...we miss her as a thinker in our time... As europeans, we should pay a great attention to her piece but she had often been rejected till today, expecially in France, unfortunatly...

[@totipark54]

so brilliant

[@ElkoJohn]

Critical thinking is dangerous but not thinking is even more dangerous Hannah Arendt

[@robertmercure1740]

❤👍👍

[@cheri238]

❤️❤️👌 Hannah Arendt was the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century, no doubts. Look what we are walking through now in 2024. In the 450 years since the beginning of America, we have had only 20 years of peace. Philosophy, sciences, history, world histories, religious divisions since , 8000 years before Christ. Heraclitus stated one can't step in the same river twice. "The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth." Alfred North Whitehead "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." Norman Douglass "A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace." Alfred North Whitehead

[@ElkoJohn]

@@cheri238

[@plekkchand]

What pleasant background music.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

At the beginning of the interview, Hannah Arendt mentions the difference between the US and European countries. She says that America's founding act, the American Constitution, is a sacred document, a founding act around which the lives of Americans are organized. In Europe, countries also have constitutions, but these documents are not as important as in the US because Europeans are organized around their nations, which are much older (and have gone through different forms of political organization). Like the US, Brazil emerged as a colony of a European country. But in my country the idea of a nation is much stronger than that of a constitution. Brazilian constitutions are generally short-lived: the Empire's Constitution lasted 65 years; all the others lasted less than that. Here the unwritten constitution (the true structure of the nation, its economy, politics and culture) has much more value than the written constitution. In this, Brazil is very different from the USA, as Hannah Arendt describes that country. But that doesn't mean that Brazil is similar to European countries, because in Europe nations have a historical depth that doesn't exist in my country. Brazil is a young nation, in the process of consolidation. America's political strength comes from its citizens' devotion to the country's constitution. But the weakness of the American nation tends to become extremely dangerous when citizens start to despise or hate the USA political institutions (as happened during and after the Donald Trump administration). Brazil's strength comes from the national cohesion that is able to maintain itself even when one constitution needs to be thrown in the trash and replaced by another.

[@xxx6555]

I was born in China. In China, no one really cares about the constitution, and the most powerful force that consolidates the Chinese society is its super long history and the long-history-based national identity, embodied in, perhaps, a bunch of modern variants of Chinese nationalism. However, I don't think it is a good thing. Any collective identity that is based on this kind of flexible yet vague thoughts, customs, habits, unwritten rules, or, the likely "newly invented tradition" I have to say, could bring irrational and dangerous inclination to its people, as the flexibility of hermeneutics may leave too many spaces for populists, demagogues, prospective dictators, or just some ordinary people who lack a clear mind, to take advantage of----or, even worse: as this identity-constructing process is inherently based on a state of the "status quo", it risks degenerating into some kind of most savage and nasty forms of nationalistic fervor, xenophobia, and nativism. Therefore, I incline to believe, the American way of the political tradition based on a written text with concise principles, clear logic, cogent arguments, and most importantly, a political IDEAL, should be a much better far superior approach to build a community and unite its citizens. Anyway, at least so far, as of August 2023, the US political system still works, and the great experiment of American democracy still perseveres.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

@@xxx6555 Yep . You are just an American who hates and fears China so much that he has to disguise himself as a Chinese in order to praise the decadent USA. 😁😁😁

[@fredericbaue]

Ha ha, 39:08 caption "unnecessarily intense music"

[@earthjustice01]

The beginning introduction with the dark music and the silhouette of New York's Skyline with the twin towers and is kind of creepy!

[@ellaMel4632]

Agree, it is creepy.

[@chantalderementeria]

Muchas gracias

[@RAUMFILTER]

is there a version without THE french overdub voice?

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

I wish, it's annoying

[@Philosophy_Overdose]

As far as I know, it doesn't exist.

[@drbrainstein1644]

I didn’t know she dated Heidegger. Learn something new everyday; Amazing!

[@alpinista2000]

This fact was well hidden for decades. So a lot more people did not know :-)

[@Orson2u]

Not just “date” - they were lovers.

[@xelaphilia]

Yes, and Edith Stein dated Husserl.

[@ghamessmona]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@bevaconme]

this was recorded last week, right?

[@LoveBeliefTruth]

I’m confused what she means buy state security BUSINESS, does she use the word synonymous to ”thing” or ”issue”.

[@DaveTan65]

Anybody knows what brand of cigarettes she smokes?

[@kasurokamado1757]

Que pena que no esté en español

[@bahn3201]

Is there a version without the French ? Only English and German ?

[@rozalialuks6583]

Thank you! #judeuslivresporPalestinaLivre

[@professorluciojunior3998]

I don´t even know what is worst, Arendt´s english or the music in the beginning

[@MartinLopez-mo7tm]

What would have Hannah said about Trump?

[@brucefranklin1317]

She would simply say... he is a clown an oaf and a scourge to everything good

[@ellaMel4632]

I think you shouldn’t concentrate on Hannah’s opinion so much. It’s more important to learn what you think about Trump.

[@Tom-rg2ex]

Exactly!

[@Forest82Gump]

and about Biden?

[@cheri238]

​@@Forest82Gump Both sides have been corrupted. American history on all sides and world histories, philosophy, sciences, religious divisions, and music creative arts beginning 3500 years before Christ. The Gilgamesh Epic, cultures traveling, and languages mixing move forward as history lies in many forms and philosophy grows as the lies unfolds. Human nature 101. Heraclitus said" One cannot step in the same river twice." Life is short. When one knows, one doesn't know and when one doesn't know, then and only then one may.🙏❤

[@JonSebastianF]

39:09 🤣

[@BangThaBazie]

With Trumps coup attempt and the supreme court going rogue her thoughts about the weaknesses of the US constitution seem so eerily contemporary.

[@MegaFount]

Don’t you mean the tyrannical Biden administration that has imprisoned in innocent political protesters in defiance of our constitution? You really need to break out of your self imposed cave of ignorance. 50:52

[@peterbagetakos8679]

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats staged the riot on January 6th, 2021. President Trump wanted Senator Ted Cruz to lead public debates about the evidence collected in the critical six Swing States. Thie Trump Republicans would have thereby exposed the corruption of Democrat electioneering for 24 hours on television! Even more damaging, those 2020 Electioning crimes would have been permanently entered into the official Congressional Record. To prevent this, Pelosi Democrats staged a theatrical "insurrection" and blamed President Trump.

[@fobbitguy]

Yes, just as Arendt's thoughts pertain to totalitarianism from the left as we see today. Obiden attempting to make DC a state, democrats trying to change the Constitution to make the senate based upon population proportionality and expanding the Supreme Court to 12 judges.

[@BangThaBazie]

@@fobbitguy US democrats are many things, but certainly not left-wing. If you think that your political compass is way off.

[@Orson2u]

Ah! The DELUSIONAL Ruling Class squawks thru you! Sqwak SQUAK squak - you repeatState Media Lies like a comrade should - and no Patriot ever could.

[@Xhuffuydrhhddyu]

The french overdub is exceedingly obnoxious...

[@user-xc1sr3xr1l]

нет такого уровня культуры на западе, чтобы адекватно интерпретировать русскую историю и культуру из-за пределов западной матрицы. все эти оценки, которые западная интеллектуальная мысль дает периоду Сталина - неадекватны. а это значит, что нас всех ждет "эль бон киндер сюрприз". очень удобно, бесконечно удобно мыслить русский большевизм как голивудский хорор в духе "сталинская резня бензопилой". ведь именно это сделала ложь Солженицина.

[@limacom]

Goto 2:45