A Party in the Desert or a Polis on the Playa?

A version of this piece was originally published in Volume 6 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College (2018).

A key area of interest to Hannah Arendt was the concept of freedom, and how it does or does not emerge in the context of human community. In particular, she saw the emergence of freedom as rare because the necessary…

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The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College is an expansive home for thinking about and in the spirit of Hannah Arendt.

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