The Last Interview with Hannah Arendt (1973 English & French)
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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 a previous upload. More Hannah Arendt: Hannah Arendt
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@igor-d.6008 2 years ago
22:30 “we sit at this table and speek freely”
Could you imagine doing such an interview today?
Could you imagine doing such an interview today?
@thadmayfield5289 2 years ago
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.)
@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 3 years ago (edited)
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.
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.
@johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273 4 years ago
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@earthjustice01 4 years ago
The beginning introduction with the dark music and the silhouette of New York's Skyline with the twin towers and is kind of creepy!
@DR.GuntherVonHagen 3 years ago
I didn’t know she dated Heidegger.
Learn something new everyday; Amazing!
Learn something new everyday; Amazing!
@VickyGRUENBLAT 1 year ago (edited)
Now is the time to take her words seriously. Years of teaching to testing haven't made critical thinkers. They made people who copy and paste. They follow what they're told to do very well.
@RenatusChristoph 4 years ago
The Americans themselves do not understand these simple facts anymore.
@cheri238 3 years ago
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. ❤
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. ❤
The Last Interview with Hannah Arendt (1973 English & French)
Philosophy Overdose
109,520 views
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 a previous upload. More Hannah Arendt: Hannah Arendt
#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy
but not thinking is even more dangerous
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