Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition

source: The Partially Examined Life    2017年2月27日
Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, and Dylan Casey at the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network Conference 9/26/15. For the edited audio version, check out http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015....

The German Intellectual Tradition: Phase 2

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source: Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan    上次更新：2015年10月14日
A series of lectures by eminent scholars; coordinated by Professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, former S. N. Banerjee Professor of Political Science, Calcutta University. As we know, the German intellectual
tradition is of crucial importance for understanding of social sciences. Many important clues to the understanding of new perspectives like the debate on modernity and Enlightenment, postmodernism, post-colonialism, identity and self, etc. can be traced to the contributions of the German tradition. Considering the importance of this theme, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata is going to launch a programme of lectures on the following thinkers, namely, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Max Weber,
Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukács, Popper, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Benjamin and Habermas. The first phase of the Programme (September, November, 2013; January, March, 2014) will cover four lectures on Kant, Hegel, Marx and Max
Weber. Each thinker would be discussed in two sessions, the duration being of two hours each. The sessions will be addressed by eminent resource persons, followed by interaction with the participants.

Part I - Sigmund Freud: Session I - Lecture by Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 1:30:05
Part I - Sigmund Freud: Session II - Lecture by Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 1:30:39
Part II - Ludwig Wittgenstein : Session I - Lecture by Professor Shefali Moitra 1:41:36
Part II - Ludwig Wittgenstein : Session II - Lecture by Professor Shefali Moitra 1:28:59
Part III - Hannah Arendt : Session I - Lecture by Professor Supriya Chaudhuri 1:34:43
Part III - Hannah Arendt : Session II - Lecture by Professor Supriya Chaudhuri 1:03:02  
Part IV - Walter Benjamin: Session I - Lecture by Professor Amlan Dasgupta 1:38:06  
Part IV - Walter Benjamin: Session II - Lecture by Professor Amlan Dasgupta  1:23:20  
Part V - Georg Lukács: Session I - Lecture by Professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta  1:25:52
Part V - Georg Lukács: Session II - Lecture by Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya 1:33:57

Aron Dunlap: Living in the Age of Anxiety; Jacques Lacan in Dialogue with Paul Tillich and Hannah Arendt

source: Shimer College Chicago   2015年4月8日
Public Lecture by Dr. Aron Dunlap, Asst. Prof. of the Liberal Arts at Shimer College, delivered at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore
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In the years following WWII there seemed to be a general consensus among intellectuals in the West that if there was a pathological underbelly to any psychological health we might presume to own, it was anxiety. This was, they agreed, the Age of Anxiety, which was the title of a long poem by W.H. Auden that functioned as the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein’s 2nd symphony. The phrase made its way into common parlance and we see it forming the nucleus of concern in theologian Paul Tillich’s tremendously popular work, The Courage to Be. In this work, Tillich agreed with existentialists such as Sartre that, while fear has an object, the problem with anxiety was that it had none. For these thinkers, anxiety was part and parcel of human life, and one had to learn to take responsibility for a life that would never be free of the awe(ful) dread of living and the certainty of death. For Freud, the neurotic anxiety issuing from the castration complex was a kind of “bedrock” beyond which psychoanalysis could not venture. In his wake, Jacques Lacan re-interpreted this aspect of his master’s thought while also challenging the existentialists by claiming that anxiety, in fact, is “not without its object,” namely, objet a, the object cause of desire, which stands in the confluence of Lacan’s three registers of the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real, and which is an entirely dependable “signal” of the Real. While Hannah Arendt uses a radically different vocabulary, there is, in her political thought, something that, like objet a, falls away. In the American political experience what falls away is enjoyment in politics. What takes its places is the inevitable duality (right, left; conservative, liberal) that settles down in the place vacated by the object cause of desire.

For more of Dr. Dunlap on Jacques Lacan, be sure to check out his YouTube lecture "The Borromean Knot of Jaques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive."
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Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Laurence Rickels: Arendt, Heidegger & The ... (2009)

source: European Graduate School       2009年10月1日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, Judith Butler and Laurence Rickels conducting a joint seminar in which they discussed Martin Heideggers essay What is Thinking? and how it relates to Hannah Arendt and her ideas on judgement. They spoke about Arendts feeling of not being welcome in the league of male philosophers and Arendts view that she was a political theorist and therefore public versus Heideggers solitary philosophy. They discussed the ontology of thought, as well as the active creation of ones being through thinking. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Judith Butler Avital Ronell Laurence Rickels

Judith Butler. Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility. 2009

source: European Graduate School       2009年9月30日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler speaking about Hannah Arendts study of Adolph Eichmann and lecturing about genocide, plurality, Kant and the categorical imperative, juridical law, performativity, and the formation of Israel in a lecture entitled Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility - How To Keep Company With Oneself. Judith Butler Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Judith Butler.