Interview Hannah Arendt 0

[lolinacarlina]

Quand elle parle d'unir en un "tout" des régions disparates et que dans un tel système c'est la loi qui règne et non pas les hommes, ça me fait penser à l'union européene.

[SrConservador]

@lolinacarlina Je pense que les conditions sur lesquels les États-Unis furent fondus n'ont jamais existait dans l 'Europe. Au début les 13 colonies n'était peuplé que par des Anglais protestants de tel forme qu'au moment de l'Independence les anglos restaient toujours comme majorité ainsi que leur convictions politique et leur langue et culture. Par contre, en Europe plus de mille ans d'Histoire, de peuples et de pensées differentes rendent une fédération rien d'autre qu'imposible.

[svetoslav80]

Anti-communist who married to communist. WTF.

[1a1a2s3d4f5g]

When she was young, she was very beautiful.

[loughrey101]

such a pity there isn't a version with the french dub omitted... :-( 

[visualart139]

don't know why she reminds me sartre lol

[lclmr8]

Comme beaucoup d'intellectuels allemands, Arendt exagère l'originalité américaine. (même fantasme chez Habermas) Les É-U ont aussi des dimensions nationales très fortes, à commencer par la langue. The Federalist papers insistaient déjà sur l'unité linguistique pour fonder l'unité politique. Ce fut ensuite mis en pratique par le monologue linguistique de l'école publique. (Fermeture des écoles françaises en Louisiane, espagnoles dans les anciens territoires mexicains, Mexique, etc.)

[lclmr8]

Comme beaucoup d'intellectuels allemands, Arendt exagère l'originalité américaine. (même fantasme chez Habermas) Les É-U ont aussi des dimensions nationales très fortes, à commencer par la langue. The Federalist papers insistaient déjà sur l'unité linguistique pour fonder l'unité politique. Ce fut ensuite mis en pratique par le monologue linguistique de l'école publique. (Fermeture des écoles françaises en Louisiane, espagnoles dans les anciens territoires mexicains, Mexique, etc.)

[bijps2shtr]

that yellow sweater is sooo 1923.

[bustaboa]

@abilify10mg What's wrong with you? she's a genius

[untruetruth]

About French subtitles instead

[lajungesombre]

this woman's french is amazing. so crisp. so clear.

[Gefilta]

wold have been funny if you said your last name was Arendt but they aren't from Germany

[morgenschweis]

Arendt is a Patronymic Name, comes from the first name

Arnold an old male name from the mediaeval times:

alte deutscher zweigliedriger Name im Mittelalter verbreitet durch die Verehrung des hl. Arnold, Lautenspieler am Hofe Karl des Grossen

[Gefilta]

Danke. I was actually playing on the homophony of the name Arendt with 'aren't' at least in English, but not very funny I admit.

[morgenschweis]

i just wanted to give you an idea what the name means, didnt want to judge your play with the words, I found it interesting.

[Gefilta]

thankyou, it was indeed interesting

[Pravoizavlijesvijeta]

@Gefilta that you admitted it made me laugh.

[3lli3saur]

tht is so weird. my last name is arendt...and my family is from germany..

[morenia20]

She is from Germany.

[morgenschweis]

from the north, Hannover, where they are more cool than in bavarian

[zarakhast]

Nietzsche famously equated Being and Becoming. There is a reciprocal relationship here - which, however, is in essence ONE. Eternal return of the same - the only possible conclusion ? That's what Nietzsche says ("the most 'scientific thought'). Language, as a mode of Being, would then belong to the eternal return, and its greatest expression would be, on the one hand, philosophy, on the other, poetry. Poetry as completed thought - not just some fancy ornamentation.

[zarakhast]

Why beings rather than nothing ? is THE question of philosophy. Only after this question has been asked - and experienced in wonder - is it POSSIBLE to ask the question What does "Being" (i.e. "is") MEAN ? This was Heidegger's question. Plato concluded that earthly beings were not, i.e. did not possess "Being". And insofar as they come and go, they do not possess Being. Reverence for the originality and significance of this question have been lost. Science never bothers to ask this question ..

[zarakhast]

has been lost, not have.

[zarakhast]

"Nothing" means the same in all languages. There is no difference between a German, an English, a Chinese or a French Nothing : they all mean the same. This is the starting point for philosophy, as Martin Heidegger admirably points out in the opening chapter of his "Introduction to Metaphysics". There is simply no other way into philosophy than by the question "Why beings rather than nothing ?"The Greeks knew this but never articulated it. Heidegger brings philosophy back to self-consciousness.

[zarakhast]

You can learn (and so "know") ten different languages but only succeed in saying nothing in all of them. Or you can genuinely know language and be able to say something in just the one language you know. Philosophy, at its height and in its essence, IS language. Language belongs to Being. Being is not just some construct of the imagination. Examine any of your sentences : they are all articulations of Being - even the ones in which "Being" is denied (ridiculously, however cleverly).

[zarakhast]

Learning French (or German) will not help you to understand a great thinker. The fact is that Heidegger says things in German which even the Germans don't understand. Philosophy is universal and is its own language. Shakespeare knew "little Latin and less Greek" - but he knew the truth.

[MagicalSunrise1984]

interesting note :) each person has his or her way of thinking so - just as great minds think alike - it takes more than a language to 'get' a thinker right

Is phylosophy universal? Does it have its own language? Perhaps - just as English is a language but americans will have to listen more attentively to understand british or australians etc

Did Shakespeare know the truth? Or did he invent it? ;)

[zarakhast]

:) Heidegger said on several occasions that in order to translate the ancient Greeks thinkers it is first necessary to translate ourselves to the matter for thought, i.e. that we must ALREADY be able to philosophize before we may adequately "translate" the ancient Greek thinkers. In his view the (ancient) Greek word said something which lies outside the scope of other languages.

[zarakhast]

This "matter for thought" is what Heidegger speaks of when he says (elsewhere, but sometimes during the same discussions) that all great thinkers say The Same. This "The Same" is Being : the univeral. So we might infer from this that, according to Heidegger, philosophy is the language of the universal but not a "universal language", if we mean by the latter a common, "everyday", language. Whenever language genuinely speaks it names Being - which will always sound strange to everyday hearing.

[zarakhast]

:) And of course each person does have his or her own way of thinking. That is never more obvious than when one gets embroiled in a philosophical debate - even in the same language !

[zarakhast]

PS - If philosophy (whenever it IS) names Being, then it IS language proper. When naming and that which is named are The Same - then there is language. Everyday language would then be an existential modification of philosophical language., i.e. a derivative of it. Philosophy would then be its own language only insofar as it is not readily heard by all. In truth, however, it would be language proper.

[schlusselkraft]

True, you don't have to learn German to understand Heidegger. But it also true that translation makes his already faitrly obscure texts even more obscure. "Being and Time" was widely read throught Germany when it was realeased,even by non-filosophical audience.

[zarakhast]

I agree with you on all points. That's why it's necessary to be able to think philosophically in advance. But as regards the obscurity of Heidegger's thought - well, that just pertains to the matter of his thought. It's a riddle ; the better the translation the more "obscure" it ought to seem. Or, to put it another way, the remote it will remain from everyday understanding. That just pertains to it - and to philosofy in general. (IMO) :)

[theroadtodjemila]

I am willing to learn french in order to understand this,thank you so much for posting it:D

[theroadtodjemila]

But if someone is able to translate it in to English I would be forever grateful:)

[tessler6868]

o-shut-up-french-bitch! volume levels RIDICULOUS. cannot hear arendt! inexcusable.

[bpatrice49]

A true genius. I mean literally ever page of The Origins of Totalitarianism just oozes clarity. It is so profound, it becomes hard to read. I think it takes real dedication to be a mature student of Arendt's work. It is also incredible how often you have to remind yourself of when Arendt is writing. Her prophecy for Israel was just astounding. I cannot quite explain it, but I believe there is something almost super human about minds like hers.

[ekstarz]

La constitution américaine ne serait-elle pas comme les esprits républicains européens l'auraient idéalemment conceptualisée? ( contres-pouvoirs, préservation des identités,...)

[Lamarckianism]

smiert1980 Thank you for the video., it is very interesting. Is there a way to get this in English? If possible let me know. Thank you very much.

[alabamasouls]

the only one who knows sincerly what politic means.

[ModernMaverick]

Arendt is grand. Read some Leo Strauss, too. They both helped to save political philosophy from the avalanche of behavioral social science.

[tessler6868]

what does THAT mean? i remember you, "modernmaverick". you don't know jack about behavioral sciences, hannah arendt or anything else.

[ModernMaverick]

And your point is...?

[tessler6868]

it means....... i look forward to your opinion of string theory!

(i'm sure there's lot's of vids on it :)

[ericberner]

terrifying, impossible- brilliant. It took days to read pages of her stuff. I really don't think she was even paying attention- She's some odd old style savant- like a unicorn-.

[lazyconquistador]

Is there any way to find this video without the French dubbing? That would help alot.

[Sufiyya]

The best and the brightest.

[WeWillWinAnarchy]

Ah man, dubbed in French, but English in original!

[coreyalan23]

Sharp minds evaluate the message. Lazy minds evaluate the messenger.

"she was a heidegger apologist" -- and what down that have to do with her arguments??

[bayleyasher]

wasn't she romantically involved with him, quite a good deal of time before nazism existed?

[coreyalan23]

It's hard to drill the idea that ad hominems are irrelevant into the brains of idiots.

[Blacktiebaconfat]

And hypocritical to attempt to do so with ad hominems.

[YusefAsabiyah]

She had an affair with him--IIRC, while she was still his graduate student. She remained loyal to him throughout her life, though this loyalty did not interfere with her ability to be critical both of the thinker and human being. This touching and inspiring. Anyone who thinks Arendt had any sympathy with the Nazis or their actions because she continued to find value in Heidegger's philosophy is perhaps misinformed. She narrowly and only through luck missed the concentration camps herself.

[bayleyasher]

Yeah, her philosophical detachment is astounding. I just read her piece on Adolf Eichmann. There are not that many people who could look at the things he did, and the things the Nazi's did, especially being Jewish, and come away saying "Yep, bureaucracy is what's fucked up. Eichmann was a pretty standard human being."

[YusefAsabiyah]

She also wanted to give the Palestinians Israeli citizenship at the founding of Israel and saw it as a big mistake when this was denied.

I agree with you when you speak of this as philosophical detachment. It could also be spoken of as philosophical maturity. She didn't let hatred or desire for revenge cloud her judgment. We can't throw away the people we don't like or disagree with or who inconvenience us in our plans...We can't regard as philosophically mature those who urge us to do so.

[PedroAlonsoLopez]

It is saddening that there are still people who can overlook the significance of Heidegger because he was a Nazi when his own Jewish friends could forgive, and discern between the politics and the thinking.

[not4resale]

not to mention he left the nazi party before world war 2 broke out. I think fascism is in direct opposition to what his philosophy is all about.

[ExMachine]

I wouldn't go that far, i think there are certain links discernible but i agree that people should look carefully into the philosophy of Heidegger (not a minor undertaking) and not dismiss him...

[ohem]

I completely agree ExMachine, I think the idea that some nazi idealogues found was his notion of going back to the primordial meaning of words and ideas, that linked with the idea of listening to Being instead of forcing nature to conform to our desires and his criticism of modernity. It was a difficult time and some idealogues compared his notions with nazi aesthetics and the overall idea of going back to the roots of germany. Where do you find links?

[muhjaheed]

Hannah Arendt was an apologist for Heidegger, that fascist slime. Her perspective on everything from Marx to Aristotle, from freedom to slavery is completely absurd!

[mari78369]

Thanks so much for posting this! Can someone please translate or post subtitles?

[bihonning]

It's horrifying that none of you express any

concern about her dubious past, i.e. her connection with Martin Heidegger, the philosopher and Nazi. He was her former teacher at the university and with whom she had a love affair. She kept defending him after WW2 and helped publish his books in the USA. Heidegger was the philosophical alibi for A.Hitler and there seems to be little reason to glorify H.Ahrendt.

[KafkaCrow]

Damn it! I must hear what she's saying!!

[coreyalan23]

I admire this woman so much. "Eichmann in Jerusalem" is THE handbook on avoiding fascism.

[mapp2tube]

I was relieved when Hannah Arendt began talking in English... but hey, PLEASE make French as a subtitle only!!

[nonomops]

unefemme aussi intelligente, ca se trouve encore?

merci bcp pour ca!!!!quel bonheur de l'entendre parler de sa voix rauqe....

[bettyncl]

Merci beaucoup pour ces videos! il y a deux ans j'ai traité de Hannah dans mon essay au Bac, malheuresement je n'avais trouvé aucuns videos dans le net.

C'est un très bon travail pour tous ses estimateurs, merci!!!

[cocomaan]

Hannah Arendt is easily one of the most interesting figures of our time. Thanks for posting this; she looked very engaging in person!

[nnoboa]

fascinante poder escucharla

[JurgenHabermas]

Awesome. Its a shame, in fact, that we dont have this vid in DVD in various language. Anyway its so great to have it this way, obviously. Thank your so much for upload this!!

[lfranmel]

es gibt eine andere interview, für eine deutsche tv... kennen sie es?

[DirectDemocracyWales]

How ominous to see the twin towers of the World Trade Centre at the opening of this clip. Thanks for posting it!

[900cookie]

Anyone know where I can view this interview in English only?

[smiert1980]

No, unfortunately, it seems to exist only dubbed in French. That's a shame.

[PatrickSchabus]

@smiert1980 why she did not answer in french, i will never understand

[BenjaminoTube]

I've been waiting for a long time for this video!

thank you!

[veganswines]

Hannah Arendt is my favourite philosopher. Thanks for posting these interviews!!!