
German women philosophers
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Hannah Arendt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.
2 February 2017
Featuring: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Eaglestone
PhilosophySocial philosophersPhilosophy writersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesPhilosophers of historyPhilosophers of culturePhilosophers of sciencePhilosophers of lawGerman political philosophersExistentialistsPolitical philosophersJewish agnosticsPhilosophers of technologyWomen religious writers20th-century German philosophersHeidelberg University alumniMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAmerican political philosophersExilliteratur writersGerman agnosticsGerman Ashkenazi JewsJewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesGerman women philosophersAmerican philosophers of educationPrinceton University faculty20th-century American essayists20th-century American women writers20th-century German women writers20th-century American philosophers20th-century German non-fiction writersJewish existentialistsThe New School facultyScholars of antisemitismUniversity of Marburg alumniGerman philosophers of education, German ethicistsGerman Zionists, American Ashkenazi Jews, American agnostics, American ZionistsUniversity of Chicago faculty, Intellectual historiansHildegard of Bingen
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval mystic, composer and writer Hildegard of Bingen.
26 June 2014
Featuring: Miri Rubin, William Flynn, Almut Suerbaum
HistoryAnglican saintsCatholic philosophersWomen religious writersWomen mysticsMedieval Latin-language poetsAngelic visionariesGerman classical composersGerman women philosophersRoman Catholic mystics12th-century writers in LatinDoctors of the ChurchManuscript illuminators12th-century Christian saintsPre-Reformation Anglican saintsMystic poetsBenedictine philosophersCreators of writing systemsHerbalistsRosa Luxemburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rosa Luxemburg, 'Red Rosa', a leading revolutionary and agitator in Poland and Germany until her arrest and murder in the Spartacus Revolt 1919.
13 April 2017
Featuring: Jacqueline Rose, Mark Jones, Nadine Rossol
History19th-century German philosophersJewish philosophersMarxist theoristsJewish socialists20th-century German philosophersGerman Marxist writersEuropean democratic socialists19th-century German writersGerman Ashkenazi JewsGerman revolutionariesGerman women philosophers19th-century German journalists20th-century German women writersCommunist women writersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party foundersGerman anti-capitalists, Jewish communists, German socialist feminists