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Image Credit: Barbara Niggl Radloff<\/p><\/div>\n

There is just about one month left to apply to become a summer scholar in the NEH-funded seminar for schoolteachers that I will direct at Bard College\u2019s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities <\/a>in 2014 on the political theory of Hannah Arendt. Those of you who read this blog and know of teachers or eligible graduate students who would benefit from participating in the seminar, please pass the link on and encourage colleagues to apply. I really count on you to help spread the word.<\/p>\n

Thinking ahead to the wonderful discussions of Arendt\u2019s provocative work we will have this summer, I am collecting new sources to inspire conversations. The first book of Arendt\u2019s the seminar engages is her controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil<\/em><\/a>. Since last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the book\u2019s publication, there have been many conferences, essays and other commentaries on it. Along with Hannah Arendt: The Movie<\/a><\/em>, Margarethe von Trotta\u2019s biopic on Arendt, which premiered last summer, these recent discussions have renewed interest in Arendt\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

As Idith Zertal<\/a> notes in the video of her presentation on Eichmann in Jerusalem<\/em> at an NYU conference a few years ago, the report Arendt wrote about the trial of Nazi deportation commander Adolf Eichmann, generated millions of words of commentary, and a wide variety of interpretations, not all accurate. In her talk, Zertal takes up the question of what Arendt wanted to say about the problem of evil. Along the way she engages with the controversy Arendt\u2019s book generated.
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