Why Hannah Arendt Matters

To mark the centenary of Hannah Arendt's birth, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a student of Arendt's, revisits Arendt’s major works and seminal ideas and explores the relevance of her thought today. Arendt's ideas illuminate issues that continue to perplex us, such as totalitarianism, terrorism, globalization, war and "radical evil." Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a faculty member at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a psychoanalyst, received her PhD in philosophy under Arendt's supervision at the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research. She has written Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World and Why Arendt Matters. Date & Time: Mon, Mar 5, 2007, 7:30pm-9:00pm Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions Cod