Now published by De Gruyter Brill as a standalone annual volume, The Hannah Arendt Yearbook represents a significant evolution from our previous in-house journal format. This new partnership ensures greater visibility, academic rigor, and global accessibility.
The Yearbook also reflects a continued commitment to the humanities. Following the Hannah Arendt Center’s acquisition of the extraordinary humanities journal Lapham’s Quarterly, we are adopting that journal’s signature model: pairing contemporary essays on a common theme with classic texts that illuminate it. Each volume thus becomes a rich, layered resource for reflection, scholarship, and public discourse.
As always, our aim is to publish essays that provoke, surprise, and enlighten—essays that speak to and about the world we share.
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The Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement in the United States gives voice to a rising nationalism and tribalism we see around the world, from Modi’s India, to Putin’s Russia, Orban’s Hungary, and Netanyahu’s Israel. Against such a tribalism is the dream of a world citizenship, the cosmopolitan ideal that sees all human beings as part of one large political world. Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism is dedicated to exploring the humanity of both tribal affiliation and cosmopolitan dreams.
Published by De Gruyter Brill, the Hannah Arendt Yearbook, Volume 13 centers on the compelling theme of Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism, featuring edited transcripts from the annual Hannah Arendt Center conference that took place in October 2024 at Bard College. For those who crave deeper engagement with the ideas explored at our annual conference, the new edition provides unparalleled access to scholarly discourse, with insightful essays by prominent thinkers such as Sebastian Junger, Fintan O’Toole, Seyla Benhabib, Leon Botstein, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Uday Mehta, and more.
With the Hannah Arendt Center’s acquisition of the exemplary humanities journal, Lapham’s Quarterly, we are incorporating Lapham’s model of supplementing contemporary essays on a theme with excerpts from classic reflections. As a result, you will find here texts relating to both tribalism and cosmopolitanism from Anthony Appiah, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Amy Chua, Emile Durkheim, Epictetus, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldûn, Martha Nussbaum, and more. The goal is to offer a rich and broad introduction to the inquiry into the human tension between our need to belong to tribes and our aspirations to cosmopolitan humanism. In addition, the mixing of present scholarship with classic texts provides a sourcebook for those who would like to explore these questions with more depth.
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