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Showing posts with label hannah arendt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hannah arendt. Show all posts
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 ...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Masha Gessen Wins 2023 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking

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  Masha Gessen at the annual conference of the  Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College  Activist and writer Masha Gessen has won the 2023 Hann...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Hannah Arendt Center Summer Social: Preview of Fall Conference on Friendship and Politics

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This week I went to the Summer Social at the Hannah Arendt Center on the campus of Bard College .  The campus is set in rolling wooded hill...
Monday, August 15, 2022

The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Hannah Arendt: Book 26 of 2022

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Hannah Arendt was very much a public intellectual. She was willing to speak and be interviewed on radio and TV and in public settings.  The ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Where Does Politics End? On Earth? How Far Into Space?

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Gloria Maritza Gomez Revuelta,  a PhD candidate at  El Colegio de Mexico At the conference on science diplomacy since World War II, one fas...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy by Hannah Arendt: Book 20 of 2022

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This book is on my list because it was the subject of the Virtual Reading Group at the Hannah Arendt Center for politics and Humanities at...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Book 8 of 2022: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt

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The Life of the Mind  is the last of more than a dozen books written by Hannah Arendt in her life.  This book consists of two book publishe...