Resistance

Dictatorships require the cooperation of institutions to uphold their vice grip of power over society. In fact, if you begin to study the question “how can you topple a dictator?” (perhaps because, like me, you’ve been worried we’re about to get one) you’re likely to encounter the concept of the…

Hannah Szenes was just 23 years old when she parachuted into enemy territory in an attempt to help her fellow Jews. Five years earlier she had left her home in Budapest, but she risked her life to return to Nazi-occupied Europe. In the Netherlands, Marion Pritchard sheltered a Jewish family. One day, a local Nazi collaborator came to her door when the children were out of their hiding place. He threatened to expose them, and Marion fought back. In this digital program, learn about these dynamic women who resisted the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.

In a matter of hours, they were tried, convicted, and beheaded for the crime of treason. These young friends had dared to oppose the Nazi regime — and were caught in a crucial moment, when the Nazis feared their grip on the public was slipping. In urgent, pleading messages, copied and mailed to thousands of Germans, the members of the “White Rose” resistance group begged their fellow citizens to rise up. Their voices went unheard then, but today the group is a symbol of righteous rebellion. In this digital program, learn their story.

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Deleuze’s Critique of Ideal Perfection and Institutional Obligation — [This is the third piece of this 4-part series on Gilles Deleuze which were originally written for Keith Faulkner’s 2022 seminar on Deleuze] In her book The Sources of Normativity, Christine M. Korsgaard introduces the subject of ethics as a contention with the sources and grounds for the norms that…