Hannah Arendt: A One-Day Symposium

Unlike many other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists, Hannah Arendt has not enjoyed a particularly strong institutional reputation in the UK.  Even in the US, where she lived, taught and worked after leaving Europe, her work is pressed into service to fit agendas and debates that do not do justice to the complex wealth of her ideas.  This symposium aims at changing all that. Through a series of short, sharp interventions, it will address the critical neglect with which Arendt’s legacy has been met hitherto, and start the process of restitution and engagement with her oeuvre, from the early dissertation on Love and Saint Augustine, through her 'Jewish writings' on Rahel Varnhagen, right through to the monumental - and often controversial - work on totalitarianism, freedom, revolution, thinking and judgment. 

Please click on a participant's name to download an audio file of their presentation. 

Participants:

• Robert Eaglestone (Keynote)
• Norma Moruzzi (Keynote)
• Michael Dillon
• Patrick Hayden
• David Luban
• Arthur Bradley
• Mathias Thaler
• Amber Carpenter
• Mihaela Mihai
• Audra Mitchell
• Alexander Beaumont
• Isabelle Hesse
• Kathleen B Jones

Hannah Arendt Symposium Programme (PDF , 510kb)

Hannah Arendt Poster (PDF , 233kb)