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2 days ago · While much has been made of Arendt's treatment of Eichmann, Ada Ushpiz, in her 2015 documentary Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, placed it in a much broader context of the use of rationality to explain seemingly irrational historical events.
Jun 13, 2024 · Han’s praise for inactivity as midwife to the new doesn’t prevent him from using much of the second half of Vita Contemplativa to stage a sustained critique of Hannah Arendt’s advocacy for ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Hannah Arendt has made her irreplaceable contribution to the understanding of the Augustinian concept of caritas in her work with the title Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin, Versuch einer Philosophischen Interpretation (1929).
Jun 26, 2024 · Courage, Hannah Arendt believed, is the first virtue of politics. Martin Gurri makes a similar argument, arguing that the post-truth malaise we find ourselves in requires the courage to distinguish facts from judgments.
Jun 14, 2024 · Friday Jun 14, 2024. The 11th episode (of the second book) in our Podcast series, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST.
Jun 25, 2024 · The book discusses the fraught relationship between Arendt and Berlin, two thinkers who nurtured mutual suspicion and enmity despite their shared philosophical concerns, which ranged from Zionism to freedom to totalitarianism to the Holocaust.
Jun 20, 2024 · The Hannah Arendt Centre offers lectures, symposia and conferences on the work of Hannah Arendt and the intellectual history of the 20th century. The archive is open to the academic and general public by appointment, an advance registration is requested.
