Inspired by Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) - Thinking
Ran Lahav interviews Kirill Rezvushkin, a member of the Deep Philosophy Group from Russia, who describes what inspired him in the Jewish-German-American philosopher Hanna Arendt.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was born in Germany and studied philosophy at several universities. Being Jewish, she escaped Germany in 1933 and ended up in the USA, where she taught at several universities until her death. She is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century, and is also known for her coverage and analysis of the trial of the Nazi war criminal Eichmann in Israel.
The interview with Kirill is based on Arendt’s last book, The Life of the Mind (posthumous, 1978). In Chapter 10, Arendt explains that when you think, you disconnect from your physical surroundings and are “elsewhere.” This, she suggests inspired Plato to argue that fundamental reality is composed of transcendent ideas.