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A New Concept of Freedom
The 2024 Alpine Fellowship in Tuscany, co-sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, centered on the theme of "language" and integrated intellectual discussions with holistic activities like yoga and nature immersion. The Fellowship underscores the importance of a strong sense of self for political freedom and character development through thinking, as inspired by Hannah Arendt's philosophy.07-13-2024
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Amor Mundi 9/28/14
This week in our Amor Mundi, we explore why distrust in America's institutions is so prevalent, look to understand "nudging" as social policy, dig deeper into the relationship between madness and creativity, and much more!09-29-2014
Arendt, The Body, and The Self
Kazue Koishikawa discusses Arendt's conception of the self and how our thoughts, our bodies, our speech, and our love shape our existence as communal beings.09-29-2014
A Vacuum Floating on Air
Roger Berkowitz discusses Carmen Segarra and how her story exposing the Federal Reserve's lack of due diligence, as well as George Packer's book "The Unwinding", reveal a fractured America.09-27-2014
Video Archives - Lunchtime Talk with Bill Dixon (2010)
In this week's Video Archives, we look back on a 2010 Lunchtime Talk with Bill Dixon on a new critique of globalization.09-27-2014
A Holy Find
In this week's Library feature, we discover a Bible and wonder if Arendt herself owned it.09-26-2014
Thucydides on Thinking
Athenian historian and political philosopher Thucydides provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.09-24-2014
Amor Mundi 9/21/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we appreciate the meaning of artistic talent to our physical and mental health, seek to understand Martin Heidegger's atypical and metaphysical Nazism, revel at the joy that is revision, and much more.09-22-2014
Arendt, Matisse, and Stripping Away the Face
Anne O'Byrne discusses Arendt's reaction to a Matisse exhibition and what "stripping away the face" means for our humanness.09-22-2014
Is America Coming Apart?
Roger Berkowitz discusses American exceptionalism and its decline as evinced in Charles Murray's "Coming Apart".09-21-2014