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Showing posts with label hannah arendt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hannah arendt. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Yiyang Zhuge: Translating Hannah Arendt Across Worlds

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  Yiyang Zhuge translator of Hannah Arendt and Plutarch At a recent conversation hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City, Roger ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Hoping Against Facts: Belief in Progress

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  The end of the Cold War seemed, for a brief moment, to vindicate the modern belief in progress. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Hannah Arendt and the Illusion of Progress

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"On Violence" is one of the essays in the book Crises of the Republic  by Hannah Arendt   In her essay On Violence , Hannah Arendt...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution: The Book That Explains Why Revolutions Keep Failing

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  Hannah Arendt ’s On Revolution  is the book people come to later, after reading  The Origins of Totalitarianism  and Eichmann in Jerusalem...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times--The 17th Annual Fall Conference of the Hannah Arendt Center

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  “We’re back from Covid ! Finally,” said Christine Gonzalez Stanton , bursting with genuine joy, at the opening of the 17th annual fall con...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt ’s The Life of the Mind —left unfinished at her death in 1975—explores what it means to live a reflective human life. Though o...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Bureaucrat of Death: Adolf Eichmann and the Machinery of the Holocaust

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(This post is edited and improved by ChatGPT. The original version is here .)  In 1932, Adolf Eichmann was an unemployed Austrian drifting t...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Tribe by Sebastian Junger -- The Ancient Roots of Many Problems of the Modern World

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In October, I went a conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism .  The first and featured speaker was Sebastian Junger , author of seven bo...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Hannah Arendt Center Conference 2024: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1st Morning

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  On October 17 and 18 the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College held its annual conference. This year's topic was Tribalism and Cosmop...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Concept of History, Chapter 2 of "Between Past and Future" by Hannah Arendt

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When we say history is written by the victors, we are assuming or accusing the historians of writing propaganda.  But as Hannah Arendt makes...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Quoting Hannah Arendt: Not Easy, but No Excuse for Fake Quotes

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On Friday, 6 September, the Virtual Reading Group of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, will begin the discussion of "Between ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil  by Hannah Arendt seemed a very different book this year than when I first read it ...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Breakout Sessions at the Hannah Arendt Conference 2023: Friendship & Politics

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In addition to the general sessions at the 2023 Hannah Arendt Conference , I enjoyed the breakout sessions. I wrote about some of the genera...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Friendship & Politics: 15th Annual Conference at the Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College

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Two of my favorite subjects in life and in philosophy are Friendship and Politics.  So I was delighted to attend the 15th Annual Conference ...