Trying to figure out a way to give form to this extraordinary political thinker. It was a special pleasure for me to have this conversation with Ken, because he just might be the only other living person I know who has spent years carrying around all of Hannah Arendt's life and work in his head, wrestling through the facts and details of her cinematic life. You know, well, the amazing thing that vexes me as an artist and a maker and a fan is that how does truth seep into art and make it good? I mean, that's just a question and I don't even know if I don't even know if that's right, but I tend to think that that's right in practice. In this episode, I talk with fellow Hannah Arendt biographer, Ken Krimstein about the art of storytelling, digging through the archives for those gems, rich and strange, the color green, artistic judgment and ecstatic truth. Like Penelope, she sat, laid smoking, day after day, weaving, and unweaving everything she thought. For Arendt storytelling is a way of creating meaning from our experiences so that we can begin to understand the world. Anybody who has dug through Hannah Arendt’s footnotes surely knows this to be true. Her first biographer Elizabeth Young-Bruehl once remarked that she was always quick to overlook the facts for the sake of a good story.
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