Led by Dr. Sinéad Hogan, the ‘Hannah Arendt, Art and Thinking’ reading group met once a month to discuss the work of political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt identified a ‘crisis of culture’ as being intimately related to a ‘crisis in thinking’; therefore, this reading group aimed to engage with what might be the relationship between Hannah Arendt, Art and Thinking?
The role of the aesthetic imagination as a political act was a key focus for the political theorist Hannah Arendt. While she rarely wrote about artworks her thinking sought to link the ‘public sphere’ as a ‘space of appearances’ to sense and the aesthetic imagination. How might we read Arendt’s interest in judgment as a form of political thinking that draws on the work of art?
The reading group was open to anyone with an interest in the work of Hannah Arendt, in particular artists, curators, cultural and political theorists, art critics, and those with an interest in the role of art and aesthetics as a tension between the public and private spheres.
To keep connected with our audience, we are also exploring the potential to host virtual reading groups and further details will be available on our website in the Autumn.
Further resources:
Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and Humanities at Bard College https://hac.bard.edu
Hannah Arendt Centre Virtual Reading Group https://hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/
Find full details here.