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The Webcast Link for Our 2014 Fall Conference Is Now Live!

The Hannah Arendt Center announces that the webcast link for its upcoming fall conference is now live!

Amor Mundi 10/5/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we explore novelist Marilynne Robinson's observation that fear dominates the contemporary human condition, value the recognition of the "now" as made manifest in Richard McGuire's "Here", reflect on academics' deficiency when it comes to writing, and much more!

Destiny and Democracy

Ian Storey invokes two pieces by E. B. White to speculate on the United States fear for the world it must confront today.

The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Ideals Worth Fighting For?

In this week's Weekend Read, in preparation for our upcoming conference, Roger Berkowitz reflects on the decline of American exceptionalism and wonders what American ideas, if any, can inspire Americans to sacrifice and struggle for the common good.

A Love for Lichtenberg

This week, we appreciate a collection of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's work in Arendt's library.

Video Archives - The Anti-Political Prejudices of Modernity: A Civil Humanist Critique (2012)

For this week's Video Archive, we look back to a 2012 lecture delivered by Michael McCarthy analyzing Arendt's critique of "the world alienation of modernity".

Fernando Pessoa on Thinking

Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

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!

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.