Seminar
Hannah Arendt - Crisis in Culture
Deep-Reading Seminar (in English) with - Dr. Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University, USA (online),
- Dr. James Barry Jr., Indiana University Southeast, USA (online),
- Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh (MC), HCMC University of Education (live & online)
The seminar will give thinkers and scholars of political theory an opportunity to explore and discuss their understanding of Hannah Arendt’s thinking. The Goethe-Institut Hanoi provides a space to meet physically and online.
Please apply for your participation by June 25, 2020. Please describe the reason why you wish to participate and how your participation will help others to understand Hannah Arendt’s work. If your application is successful, you will get an invitation and the text for your preparation. The number of participants is limited to 12. A good command of language is of advantage.
RSVP: Wilfried.Eckstein@goethe.de
Complete text for the deep reading:
Hanna Arendt
The notion of crisis is central to Arendt’s work. Between Past and Future, is a collection of eight essays on crisis in political thought. The topic on June 27 will be “Crisis in Culture”. The chosen text for July 04 will be ”Crisis in Education”.
About the speakers
James Barry Jr.Trained in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, I came to Hannah Arendt’s work fairly late. Her work opened up new possibilities for understanding our contemporary crises as a legacy of the ambiguous western tradition that we have inherited. Her work represented for me a new way of thinking about our world and ourselves that seemed to lie outside the mainstream of western philosophical practice while it also paid homage to the radical questioning that has always driven the best of the western intellectual traditions. Arendt’s emphasis on our collective capacity to begin something new seems especially important in an age when we are confronted by unprecedented challenges and perplexities, such as climate change and the widespread loss of traditional identities. She reminds us that the future is open so long as we understand our shared responsibility for what lies ahead and behind us.
Lisa Stenmark
Lisa Stenmark on Hannah Arendt:
“I have been trying to see the world through Hannah Arendt’s eyes for over 20 years, and while I don't agree with everything she wrote, I find her perspective helps me understand the world better. The Vietnamese will certainly find many aspects of Arendt’s thought helpful as well—including her understanding of modernity, education, and the dangers of consumerism—and I look forward to seeing Arendt through Vietnamese eyes! But her greatest contribution may be her approach—a kind of storytelling that makes it possible for us to think together about global problems, without imposing a global culture.”
Nguyen Thi Minh
On Hannah Arendt
I have pursued semiotics for more than 10 years and used this method to study literature and cinema, especially the representation of women in literature and cinema from a comparative perspective. Semiotics has two main sources. The first branch comes from Ferdinand de Saussure and linguistics. The second branch originates from Charles Sanders Peirce and philosophy. That was the reason why I spent a long time studying and translating philosophy. Among modern philosophers, Hannah Arendt can be considered a philosopher of crisis. She suggests a way of thinking in times of crisis: when the old is gone, the new is not yet formed. I am particularly interested in Hannah Arendt's idea of living together and taking care for the world which I feel very relevant to women studies. Arendt will also help me to think and answer many questions for Vietnam today.
Details
Language: Englisch
Price: Freier Eintritt
+84 24 32004494
Wilfried.Eckstein@goethe.de
Part of series HANNAH ARENDT - PHILOSOPHER OF CRISIS
Goethe-Institut Hanoi | B2 Room and Online (through: Zoom)