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Lecture: Conversations - Hannah Arendt, Ralpho Waldo Ellison, James Baldwin und W.E.B. Du Bois"

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October 26, 2023
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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"Conversations - Hannah Arendt, Ralph Waldo Ellison, James
Baldwin und W.E.B. Du Bois."

Lecture with Marie Luise Knott. 

Hannah Arendt’s essay against legal enforcement of school desegregation (Reflections on Little Rock, 1957) was one of her most controversial publications. Little known is that her essay was followed by a conversation with Ralph Ellison in 1965 – who was her distant neighbor on River Side Drive. In her talk Marie Luise Knott presents insights from her book on Arendt’s dialog with Ellison and on how, through other conversations (with Du Bois and Baldwin) the “ideal of sacrifice” entered the sphere of Arendt’s thinking.