| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Hannah Arendt, Peter Stadelmayer |
| Event |
Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1968. |
| Summary |
An intimate and intellectual lecture given by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of her friend and colleague in the philosophical field, Walter Benjamin. Delivered in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York, Arendt’s speech paid tribute to Benjamin’s ideologies surrounding linguistic philosophy, history and literature. Arendt notes the importance of German-Jewish literature in Benjamin’s work, insisting that “without being a poet, he thought poetically. For him the metaphor was the greatest gift of language, because it transforms the invisible into the sensual.” (Hannah Ardent) Through his passion for writers such as Kafka, Goethe and Proust, Benjamin honed his own sort of theology revolving around classic texts, preservation, and the collecting of wisdom. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
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History.
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Philosophy and religion.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Blackwood, Christian, film director.
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Blackwood, Michael, film director.
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Arendt, Hannah, actor.
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Stadelmayer, Peter, actor.
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Michael Blackwood Productions (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6982228 Kanopy |
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