By Ayten Gündoğdu My comments on these presentations center on two interrelated questions: 1) In what ways does Arendt’s reading of Nietzsche in her different works challenge the conventional reception of Nietzsche? 2) How does her close engagement with Nietzsche in… Continue Reading
By Simona Forti Hannah Arendt liked to quote Cicero and his preference “to rather go astray with Plato than hold true views with Pythagoreans”. For her, in fact, the question of whom we wish to be together with, in life… Continue Reading
By Linda M. G. Zerilli At the end of “Willing” (Volume 2 of The Life of the Mind), Hannah Arendt explicitly announces the need to write a section on “judging” in order to respond to the impasses in “every philosophy of… Continue Reading
By Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt’s familiarity and engagement with Nietzsche’s work are deep and pervasive. Nietzsche certainly belongs among the canon of philosophers that she most wrote about – the others being Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Machiavelli and Marx and to… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Although Hannah Arendt had, in The Human Condition and Between Past and Future, sustained important conversations with Nietzsche, it is really only in 1975 that Arendt would engage Nietzsche’s thought in the most direct and sustained… Continue Reading