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Arendt, Nietzsche, and Power

In this week's Library feature, we appreciate two passages on Nietzsche that Arendt found worthy of annotation.

Video Archives - "Revenge and the Art of Justice" (2011)

In this week's Video Archives, we look back on a lecture Roger Berkowitz gave on the relationship between revenge and justice.

Please Support the Hannah Arendt Center This Holiday Season!

Please consider supporting the Hannah Arendt Center this holiday season with a donation!

P. D. Ouspensky on Thinking

Russian mathematician and esotericist P. D. Ouspensky provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Experience as an Anchor for Thinking

Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen discusses how the absence of experience leads philosophy and ideology into useless abstractions that ignore the reality of human interactions.

Amor Mundi 11/30/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the state of refugees and human rights, realize the need to rethink the role of Congress in formulating U.S. foreign policy, meditate on the outcome of Darren Wilson's trial, and much more.

George Bernard Shaw on Thinking

George Bernard Shaw provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

The Nation Principle

Michiel Bot explores Arendt's understanding of the "national idea" as one of the origins of totalitarianism.

Amor Mundi 11/23/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we learn about the adverse health effects of loneliness, perceive the inextricable ties between integrity and privacy and how both are threatened in the age of surveillance, lament the overly scholasticized nature of teaching in America, and much more!