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Hannah Arendt, On Truth and Lying in Politics

Phelps 6206 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.) Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works offer provocative reflections on the conditions of possibility for political experience, an experience that defines the human condition. Her work is deeply concerned with the […]