{"podcast":{"title":"sleepyphilosophyradio","slug":"sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","podcast_index_feed_id":7603911,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10aead048/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44681282/44681282-1777026987033-e668d2591b5ee.jpg","author":"slphilosophy","episode_count":54,"summary":"Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating. If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:17:58.150479+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911"},"episode":{"title":"\"The Banality of Evil\" | Hannah Arendt's Complete Philosophy For Sleep","slug":"the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-s-complete-philosophy-for-sleep","published_at":"2026-05-11T18:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-s-complete-philosophy-for-sleep","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepyphilo/episodes/The-Banality-of-Evil--Hannah-Arendts-Complete-Philosophy-For-Sleep-e3i3o49","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3594259603.mp3","summary":"Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote What if the worst evil in history was committed not by monsters, but by ordinary people who simply stopped thinking? Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of Hannah Arendt. In this episode, we trace the full arc of Arendt's life and ideas. We begin with a young Jewish philosopher in Königsberg, studying under Heidegger and Jaspers, and follow her flight from Nazi Germany, her internment in a French camp, and her arrival in New York in nineteen forty-one with nothing but her intellect and a question: how had this been possible? What follows is one of the most extraordinary intellectual careers of the twentieth century. We work through her monumental account of totalitarianism, her philosophical defense of the public realm and political action, her controversial reporting on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, and her final unfinished inquiry into thinking, willing, and judgment. Along the way we encounter the phrase that made her famous and infamous at once, a careful examination of how bureaucratic participation in mass murder can occur without conventional evil motivation, and a sustained argument that what the modern age has lost is something genuinely irreplaceable: the space in which human beings, in all their plurality, can act together and begin something new. Please listen only in safe, restful contexts. (0:00:00) Biography and Formation (0:20:20) The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part One (0:37:21) The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part Two (0:53:10) The Human Condition, Part One (1:08:56) The Human Condition, Part Two (1:24:34) Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Trial (1:40:12) The Banality of Evil (1:56:40) On Revolution (2:12:37) The Life of the Mind (2:29:07) Influence and Legacy All research and writing…","meta_description":"Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote What if the worst evil in history was committed not by monsters, but by ordinary peopl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9976,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/episodes/the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-s-complete-philosophy-for-sleep/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-s-complete-philosophy-for-sleep.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}