Searching for a Homeland
“And even if Jews were to win the war…[t]he ‘victorious’ Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerg..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt, Politics
Ange-Marie Hancock on Arendt and Dubois
On July 15, 2010, the NEH Summer Seminar Scholars welcomed political science professor Ange-Marie Hancock of the University of California, who gave a lecture on the concept of the conscious pariah in Arendt’s work in comparison to W.E.B...
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt
Joanna V. Scott on Arendt as a Modernist Writer
In the following two-part video, Professor Joanna V. Scott discusses Arendt as a modernist writer, and explores the ways existentialist philosophy, and the New York intellectual circles in which Arendts traveled, affected Arendt as a thinker a..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt
New AV Materials Available from NEH Arendt Seminar 2010
In 2010, several visiting scholars came to San Diego during the time of the NEH seminar on Hannah Arendt that I was directing. Through a supplemental grant from the NEH specifically designed to enhance web sites related to NEH seminars and ins..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt
President Obama’s Middle East Speech: A Two-State Solution?
“The status quo is unsustainable and Israel, too, must act boldly….” Pres. Obama stated this morning in his major speech on the Middle East. A “lasting peace” requires “two states for two peoples.” This, he declared, is what ..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt
Eichmann Arrested Fifty-One Years Ago Today
Fifty-one years ago today, on May 11, 1960, Adolf Eichmann stepped off a bus in Buenos Aires, Argentina and into the hands of his Israeli captors, agents from Mossad, the Israeli special forces. Some days later they transported him on an El-Al..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt
“Ethical Fading” under Conditions of Totalitarianism
An oped piece by two business professors, Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, in yesterday’s New York Times triggered an association to Arendt’s arguments in Eichmann in Jerusalem. Even though the researchers make no use of her ..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt, personal responsibility, thinking
Public and Private/Political and Social/Pariah and Parvenu
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, a panel discussion among four “prominent public philosophers” was held at Cooper Union, NY in the fall of 2009. Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler, and Cornel West gave presen..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Hannah Arendt, Religion and Politics
The Eichmann Trial: Fifty Years Later
Three days and fifty years ago, Adolf Eichmann entered a glass booth in a crowded Jerusalem theater-turned-courtroom and stood listening to the indictment read by Moshe Landau, the presiding judge, accusing him of causing the deaths of million..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt, thinking
Teachers Need Renewal
As I prepare to announce the summer scholars who will be working on the political theory of Hannah Arendt with me this summer at Bard College, an article in today’s New York Times about the state of public education in the U.S. gave me p..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in education, Hannah Arendt