20 May 2023

Danyl McLauchlan: Hannah Arendt and the loneliness of modernity

From Saturday Morning, 11:40 am on 20 May 2023
Danyl Mclauchlan

Danyl McLauchlan Photo: supplied

Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers.

This week, the life and work of influential twentieth century philosopher Hannah Arendt, whose books include The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition

Born into a Jewish German family, Arendt famously coined the term "the banality of evil"  to describe Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. 

Danyl is the author of two novels and Tranquillity and Ruin, an essay collection.

Portrait of German-born American political theorist and author Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975) with a cigarette in her hand, 1949. (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

German-born American political theorist and author Hannah Arendt 1949. Photo: Fred Stein Archive

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