Hannah Arendt. Between thinking and action

Fina Birulés and À. Lorena Fuster (Seminari Filosofia i Gènere-ADHUC, Universitat de Barcelona) are the directors of the course "Hannah Arendt. Between thinking and action".

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was at the center of the most heated debates of her time on totalitarianism and other issues related to this unprecedented event that pulverized the categories of political and moral judgment. From being, not so long ago, a practically unknown name in our panorama, in recent years she has become an almost inexcusable reference to interpret the most varied issues of our time and, at this point, nobody questions her prominence in contemporary political thought. Her desire to rehabilitate political action and freedom or her criticism of the tradition of Western political philosophy are some of the contributions that the author has left us with her work and that help us understand our world with its contradictions.

In this course we intend to make Arendt speak in her own terms, through a broad overview of her work and her biography, guided by her key concepts, her most outstanding books, as well as the underlying concerns and commitments that spurred her desire to understand.

Program

1. Intertwined by the human condition, by Anita Lanfanconi
2. Totalitarianism: an unprecedented phenomenon in the political tradition, by Edgar Straehle
3. Violence as a pre-political moment and element of resistance, by Stefania Fantauzzi
4. Attending to the world (or Arendt on Eichmann), by Fina Birulés
5. Companies for thought: Lessing and literature, by Fina Birulés
6. Hannah Arendt and public happiness, by Adriana Cavarero

Enrollment

Registration

General: €65

Students, pensioners, unemployed, over 65s and friends of the CCCB: €50