Hannah Arendt and Her World

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Hannah Arendt (Hanover, Germany 1906 – New York 1975) is increasingly recognized as a pivotal thinker about her world and ours, bridging Europe and America, philosophy and politics, while taking on such key issues as migration, statelessness, the refugee experience; nationalism, totalitarianism, and Zionism; the politics of race and anti-Semitism; the relation between thinking and acting. In this seminar we will read some of Arendt’s key works, including “We Refugees,” “Zionism Reconsidered,” The Origins of Totalitarianism, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, accompanied by other texts that inspired her or were in turn inspired by her, from Max Weber to Judith Butler.