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Hannah Arendt Center presents:

Hannah Arendt & Walter Benjamin

Lecture by Antonia Grunenberg

Monday, November 7, 2011
Olin Humanities, Room 102
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

This event occurred on:  Professor Grunenberg has published many books in philosophy and political theory, and she was for years the Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. 
She is the author of:
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger: History of a Love
(Hannah Arendt und Martin Heidegger: Geschichte einer Liebe.)

The Desire for Guilt: On the Power of the Past over the Future 
(Die Lust der Schuld: Von der Macht der Vergangenheit über die Gegenwart)

The Sleep of Freedom: On the Infinite in Politics and the Threat to Common Sense
(Der Schlaf der Freiheit: Von der Entgrenzung der Politik und die Bedrohung des Gemeinsinns). 
You can watch a video of Antonia Grunenberg speaking at Bard in the 2009 Arendt Center Conference here (introduced by Prof. Marina van Zuylen):
http://vimeo.com/15088375
You can read Antonia Grunenberg's essay, "Totalitarian Lies and Post-Totalitarian Guilt: The Question of Ethics in Democratic Politics," here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_2_69/ai_90439536/?tag=content;col1
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