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Welcome NEH Summer Scholars to NEH Arendt 2014

  • April 24, 2014,
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After careful deliberation, my committee members and I selected the 2014 Summer Scholars who will study the political theory of Hannah Arendt under my direction this summer at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Huma..

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Reading Eichmann in Jerusalem

  • April 30, 2014,
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Fifty years ago, Hannah Arendt published her controversial report on the trial of Nazi deportation commander, Adolf Eichmann: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The book put Arendt at the center of a storm of criticism th..

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Eichmann’s Thoughtlessness and Arendt’s Judgment

  • May 18, 2014,
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We are now about four weeks away from the start of my NEH Arendt seminar at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, when I will join 16 other educator/colleagues from across the country for a summer of schola..

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Education and Ethics: Agency and Love of the World

  • June 25, 2014,
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The question of character and education emerge in the course of our seminar on Arendt exploring the concept of judgment and Arendt’s argument that those who failed to “think for themselves” often became supporters of totalitarianism. In ..

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NEH Seminar: The Movie

  • July 29, 2015,
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It’s been less than a week since I was notified that the NEH seminar for schoolteachers on the political theory of Hannah Arendt will be funded for summer 2016, but I already am at work getting plans in place for next summer’s seminar ..

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Welcome 2017 Hannah Arendt Summer Scholars

  • April 26, 2017,
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For the last few weeks, my assistants and I have been coordinating paperwork for all the new Arendt scholars who will join me at UC-Davis this summer to study key works of the political theorist, Hannah Arendt. I have now posted all the short ..

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Guest Lecturer Ada Ushpiz’s Film, Vita Activa

  • April 29, 2017,
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Summer scholars who will attend the 2017 NEH seminar on Arendt should already be reading Eichmann in Jerusalem in preparation for the first discussions we will have. A controversial book that continues to spark heated discussion, the book moti..

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Recent Commentaries on Arendt

  • June 2, 2017,
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In the months since the election of Donald Trump, references to Hannah Arendt’s work have sky-rocketed, as have sales of The Origins of Totalitarianism. As a result, I’ve been approached by various news outlets to write commentary on the r..

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