Nancy Fraser and Julia Kristeva: Human Nature, Feminism and Politics

Ronnie Beiner and Jeffery Newman: Public and Private Thinking

Richard Bernstein and Waltraud Meints: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Richard Sennet: Religion and Ideology in Arendt

Since the experience of totalitarian domination in the last century and, more particularly, since 11 September 2001, questions concerning the nature of political responsibility, and the costs of failure to face up to its demands, have taken on a renewed urgency.

This broadly interdisciplinary conference will address these issues through discussion of the ways in which they underlie so much of Hannah Arendt's work. Themes addressed will include responsibility for politics in our role as citizens and, as central to our concern for the world in which we all live, responsibility for what is done in our name.

The conference brings together leading thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds, whose work has been concerned with some of the many different aspects of the overall theme of Politics and Responsibility, and in particular with the work of Hannah Arendt herself.

Conference registration and details

£35/£20 (concs. with proof) to include lunch and refreshments Cheques payable to Wiener Library Ltd

Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
4 Devonshire Street
London W1W 5BH
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Organised by: The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, NYU, London, The Forum for European Philosophy, The University of Hannover