Event overview
In a world ‘out of joint’ how did Arendt "unlearn" the concepts that had proven to be invalid in order to find what she called “a home in the present”?
Taking as its point of departure Hannah Arendt's view in 1945 that the world was "out of joint," this lecture is concerned with Arendt's ideas of the break with tradition, the tenability of Nietzsche's "rainbow bridges of concepts," and how Arendt, the political philosopher, started to "unlearn" the concepts that had proven to be invalid in order to find what she called “a home in the present”.
Marie Luise Knott is a journalist, translator, and author living in Berlin. In 1995 she founded the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique and has been its editor-in-chief for eleven years. She has written numerous works on art and literature, as well as two studies of Hannah Arendt. Her most recent publication is Unlearning with Hannah Arendt (Granta, 2013), which was Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize.
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14 May 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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