The Hannah Arendt Center
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt, the leading thinker of politics and active citizenship in the modern era.Upcoming Events
- 2/27Thursday
Charlene Teters: In Whose Honor? Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 3/05Thursday
Anna Rosmus: The Nasty Girl, Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 3/06Friday
HESTIA 2020
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan - 3/07Saturday
The Black Body Experience: Giving Back, Giving Black
5th Annual Conference
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Read This Week's Feature
A Politics of Meaning
By Roger BerkowitzIn an essay on Arendt in this year’s Critique 13/13 Seminars, Seyla Benhabib asks whether it makes sense to read Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition as a core text in the somewhat arcane world of critical theory. For Benahabib, Arendt’s text is “critical” insofar as it “shares with the Marxist tradition a critique of the alienation of the homo faber from the products...
02-14-2020