Todayat 2pm EST/7pm EST:
“Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition”: As part of our “Century of Violence” series, Arendt scholar Samantha Rose Hill will discuss Hannah Arendt’s most prescient book, The Human Condition (1958) with Brad Evans.
The Human Condition offers readers a vocabulary for thinking about the relationship between thinking and action, the spectre of technology, the rise of the social, the loss of privacy, political action, identity politics, alienation, and the loss of freedom in modernity. What does it mean to inhabit the earth and make the world in common? When, if ever, is violence politically necessary? Can the democratic principle of freedom survive in the 21st century?