The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: A Public Intellectual in the Public Square
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“Ethical Fading” under Conditions of Totalitarianism

  • April 21, 2011,
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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.
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Action and Engaged Scholarship: Tiya Miles

  • September 20, 2011,
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In her book, Men in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt created portraits of those whose lives illuminated an era. “Even in the darkest of times,” she wrote, “we have the right to expect some illumination…[S]uch illumination may ..

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Public Happiness: Action in Concert with Others

  • September 27, 2011,
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In the summer of 1970, Hannah Arendt was interviewed by Adelbert Reif, a German writer, who asked her to expand on comments she had made in On Violence about the revolutionary student movements of the 1960s. Her remarks, published in Crises of..

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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..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
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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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Controversy in Eichmann in Jerusalem

  • October 26, 2016,
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Among the many controversial aspects of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, which originally appeared as a multi-part series in The New Yorker, the most incendiary points she made appeared in chapter VII. In that section of the book, enti..

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Considering Totalitarianism

  • November 12, 2016,
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The response around the globe to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has ranged across a spectrum. Applause came, of course, from Trump supporters who voted for him. The majority of these were white voters, men ..

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