BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ” - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:91Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ” X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ” REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T153850 CREATED:20231016T174300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T174300Z UID:4707-1646742600-1646748000@www.drbu.edu SUMMARY:Reflections on the Openness of Thinking: Hannah Arendt in conversation with philosophy - Katharina Kaiser\, U. C. Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 8\, 2022\, 12:30 PM\, PST\nWhere:\nIn-Person: 2nd Floor Lounge (91Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ” students\, faculty\, & staff only)\nOnline: register Here for Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-uqqjgoE9FSkoPZB7Q8qWWDNf23a7bA \nAbstract\n“We are what men always have been—thinking beings”\, Hannah Arendt states in her posthumously published (unfinished) book The Life of the Mind. And yet our thoughtlessness contributes to much evil in the world—the rise of totalitarianism\, the Holocaust\, the widespread attacks on civilian populations during her own lifetime. It may also be discerned in the increasing levels of alienation in contemporary societies struggling to cope with rapid scientific and technological transformation. \nMy talk aims to show how Arendt’s analysis of ‘thinking’ is tied to her underlying plea for amor mundi (love of the world). This becomes apparent in her Kant-inspired exemplary (re)modeling of Socrates in the market place. I will focus on some key aspects in her endeavor to chart the openness of thinking in its connection to language. Particular attention will be paid to the roles of metaphor\, imagination\, and the ineffable. Some of the underlying Kantian\, Nietzschean\, Heideggerian\, and Pre-Socratic perspectives that Arendt draws upon\, both in support as well as in oblique criticism\, will also be explored. \nI will conclude with a few words on Arendt’s ‘sort of phenomenological’ orientation\, which freely integrates genealogical and existential aspects in a deliberately ‘non-professional’ conversation with ‘philosophy’. \nSpeaker Biography\nKatharina U. Kaiser is Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. She studied philosophy and literature\, as well as physics and the history of science\, at the UniversitĂ€t Hamburg in Germany\, where her academic career began with teaching and research positions in philosophy and German studies. She arrived at UC Berkeley after affiliations with Princeton University\, the University of Pennsylvania\, the Australian National University\, and the Humboldt-UniversitĂ€t zu Berlin. At Berkeley she has offered courses on figures in post-Kantian philosophy (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche) and 20th century German philosophy (Heidegger\, Adorno\, and Hannah Arendt)\, as well as on a range of topics in aesthetics and the theory of art. Collaborations with philosophers in Europe have led to regular extended stays in Germany. Currently she is developing a critical theory of communality and the foreign\, inspired by Hölderlin\, that also incorporates influences from Hannah Arendt. URL:/event/reflections-on-the-openness-of-thinking-hannah-arendt-in-conversation-with-philosophy-katharina-kaiser-u-c-berkeley/ CATEGORIES:Colloquium Lecture Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR