Creolizing Hannah Arendt Book Launch and Collective Conversation

This event occurred on:  Join us (RSVP req'd) for a book launch with opening remarks by the co-editors and contributors, followed by a collective conversation, on September 26th, 7-9pm, at Bard NYC, 292 N 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology.

Contributors include: Cristina Beltrán, Roger Berkowitz, Angélica Maria Bernal, Robert Eaglestone, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Paget Henry, Thomas Meagher, Dana Francisco Miranda '14, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Niklas Plaetzer, Neil Roberts.

Book launch opening remarks by:

• Cristina Beltrán, an Associate Professor in the department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. A political theorist by training, her research focuses on modern and contemporary political theory, Latinx and U.S. ethnic/racial politics, feminist and queer theory.
• Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, where he writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world.
• Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University and the author of Neither Victim Nor Survivor. She is presently working on a book to be titled Arendt and Husserl: Phenomenology, Totalitarianism, and the Banality of Evil. 
• Neil Roberts, the John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom.

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