Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11.30AM to 5:30
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.
Participants:
Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building
Admission: Free admission - open to all
Email: alex.beaumont@york.ac.uk