BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Colloquium for Int Hist: Arendt Lecture Series : "Hannah Arendt: Thought Defying Evil" PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_652331_0 SUMMARY:Colloquium for Int Hist: Arendt Lecture Series : "Hannah Arendt: Thought Defying Evil" DESCRIPTION:

In 1946 Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers corresponded about the nature of evil and German guilt. The seeds of Arendt’s thinking about evil can be traced back to their exchange. Bernstein critically examines Arendt’s understanding of radical evil in The Origins of Totalitarianism and its relation the banality of evil in Eichmann in Jerusalem.He also relates Arendt discussion of evil to Primo Levi’s reflections on evil.

Richard Bernstein Vera List Professor of Philosophy , New School for Social Research

Sponsors: Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium ; Harvard Center for Jewish Studies

Contact: Professor Peter Gordon, pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Richard J. Bernstein (New School), "Hannah Arendt: Thought Defying Evil". (Poster)

LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20160420T210000Z DTEND:20160420T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR