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| Jeremiah Day - Hannah Arendt's Crisis in Culture |
// Hannah Arendt’s The Crisis in Culture: It's Social and Political Significance - Reading Group and Lecture Series May, 2011
// May 7th, May 14th, May 21st, May 28th
// Reading Group 11:00; Lecture/Discussion Series 16:00
Organized by Jeremiah Day
The work of the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt is widely acknowledged in contemporary social and political debates, and yet her unique understanding of the inter-relationship between cultural practice and the polis has been largely overlooked. “The Crisis in Culture: It's Social and Political Significance,” published in 1961, was Arendt’s contribution to the debates of her time concerning avant-garde and kitsch, high and low culture. This fiftieth anniversary serves as an occasion to take up this text, explicate and elaborate upon it, bringing Arendt's ideas into dialogue with the questions faced in contemporary thinking on art and politics.
The project will consist of two structures - a morning reading group that is by reservation only and an afternoon presentation series that is open to the public.
Reading Group
The reading group will be held each Saturday in May at 11:00 AM, the text will be read aloud by the group and opened up for discussion. Places for the reading group are limited and reservations should be made in advance.
Lecture/Discussion Series
Each Saturday in May at 4:00 PM, this series of presentations will offer examples of and reflections on the intersection between Arendt's work and cultural practice. No reservations necessary, open to the public and drinks will follow the talks.
• May 7th - Roundtable on Arendt / Benjamin / Adorno, with contributions from Michael Baers, Fred Dewey, Phillip Kleinmichel and Ines Schraber
• May 14th - Gertrud Sandqvist & Mick Wilson
• Saturday May 21st - Judith Siegmund & Wolfgang Heuer
• Saturday May 28th - Fred Dewey
To join the reading group or for further information please contact:
generalpublic_readinggroup(at)hotmail.com
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