P R O J E C T S Arendt On Mannheim - Professor David Kettler presents a comprehensive reading of Arendt's critical reading of sociologist Karl Mannheim, including: an essay, "Das Geheimnis von Karl Mannheims auXerordentlichen Aufstieg," historical notes, a painstaking recreation of Arendt's marginalia in an unbound galley copy of Mannheim's "Ideologie und Utopie" [1929], and in a small pamphlet, "Die Bedeutung der Konkurrenz im Gebeite des Geistigen," [1928,1929]. Also collected here is Professor Peter Baehr's "Sociology and the Mistrust of Thought: Hannah Arendt’s Encounter with Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge."
Power and Violence In December of 1968 Heinrich Bluecher, Arendt's husband, delivered a final lecture before his retirement. On the occasion Bard President Reamer Kline invited Hannah Arendt to campus for a retirement celebration. She agreed to give a lecture on the topic of "Power and Violence" (following the Columbia student protests in spring of 1968). A few months later, in the February 27, 1969 issue of The New York Review of Books, Arendt published "Reflections on Violence," later included in her On Violence, published by Harcourt Brace in 1970. (Audio was digitized in 2006 from reel to reel analog
tape archives.)
