“Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism” Conference Covered in Hudson Valley One

The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference, “Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralist Politics,” which brought speakers to Bard College to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election, was covered in Hudson Valley One. The two-day conference, which took place from October 17–18, explored the question of how society can make a space for tribal loyalty and tribal meaning while simultaneously maintaining our commitment to pluralist politics. “The first step to finding good answers to complex problems is to pose the right questions, and I thought the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities had done that,” writes Geddy Sveikauskas for Hudson Valley One. “And it didn’t embed the ‘correct’ answers in the way the questions were asked, as the Platonic dialogues had done. It was a tribute to the way the event had been organized that the program seemed to me to have encouraged a genuine spirit of inquiry.”

Post Date: 10-29-2024