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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: The Anti-Political Prejudices of Modernity: A Civic Humanist Critique Tuesday, November 13, 2012 " No other human ability has suffered to such an extent from the progress of the modern age as the capacity for action, the capacity to begin something new". Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic Hannah Arendt was neither a liberal nor a Marxist. In fact, her critique of the Western political tradition spares neither ancients nor moderns, neither classical philosophers and theologians nor modern economists and social theorists. Arendt was rather a civic humanist, a reflective adherent of the civic republican and revolutionary traditions. My reflections, undertaken in her memory, revolve around two closely related questions. Why was Arendt so critical of the political heritage of the modern age? Why was the political promise of modernity never fulfilled? The unifying theme connecting Arendt's answers to these questions is the world alienation of modernity. McCarthy's lecture will explore one principal source of that alienation and clarify the political alternative Arendt offered in response: knowledge and love of the world. Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project Contact: Bridget Hollenback. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7878 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/