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On the Critique of Secular Ethics: An Essay with Flannery O'Connor and Hannah Arendt
No full textReferring to Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, the Southern US fiction writer Flannery O'Connor expressed the effect of the revelations about the horrors of Nazi Germany as "haunting". Taking this comment and her admiration of Arendt as a cue, this article rereads Flannery O'Connor's fictional depiction of secular characters. Usually lauded or critiqued for her entanglement in 'otherworldly' concerns, here these concerns become comprehensible as much as political intervention as motivated by 'religious' belief. O'Connor's frequently humorous use of her fiction as a retort to the secular world was inflected by her reading of Eric Voegelin's contemporary secularization thesis with its criticism of all 'isms'. In this context, O'Connor's admiration for Arendt becomes all the more intriguing (since Arendt's interpretations of the human condition clashed with Voegelin's), and allows one to stage a theoretical meeting in order to explore O'Connor's depiction of the secular in relation to a speculative exploration of how Arendt might have responded to the fiction of O'Connor. Such a staging is accomplished here via a reading of O'Connor's short story 'The Lame Shall Enter First' read against Arendt's concerns, principally those expressed in The Human Condition
Dr Hannah Graham on Australian leadership: Integrity, relational leadership and tenacious courage of conviction
No full textHannah Graham talks to Victor Perton about Australian Leadership. Criminologist, author and university lecturer Dr Hannah Graham was born in Tasmania and studied and worked at the University of Tasmania, before moving to Scotland to work in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Stirling. Hannah has worked on justice and health-related projects with the EU, the Scottish Government, the Australian Government and Tasmanian Government, and she does ongoing research and writing on innovation and justice. Connect to Hannah on Twitter: @DrHannahGraham and @Innovative_Jus
Ways of knowing: Incorporating indigenous ways of learning into education
No full texthow can educators and curriculum designers incorporate indigenous ways of learning into education? Hannah Rachel Bell has some suggestions
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
Pittard, Hannah : Fiction Reading; February 10, 2020
No full textContents:
All tracks Fiction reading [complete]
Track 01 Introduction
Track 02 Reading From "Reunion"
Track 03 Reading From An Untitled Work
Track 04 Q&A
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Hannah Arendt: "The Human Condition" and the single thought
No full textopenPartendo dalla biografia della filosofa Hannah Arendt e dalla sua esperienza in quanto ebrea durante la seconda guerra mondiale, verrà fatta un’analisi del processo ad Eichmann come esempio di male banale che si insinua nella società laddove manca una coscienza politica. In ultimo, riprendendo lo scopo dell’opera di Hannah Arendt “Vita Activa”, verrà descritta l’importanza di un esercizio della politica continuo e attivo per contrastare il cosiddetto pensiero unico che, secondo l’autrice stessa, ha portato al sopravvento dei totalitarismi del secolo scorso.Starting from the biography of the philosopher Hannah Arendt and her experience as a Jew during the Second World War, an analysis of the Eichmann trial will be made as an example of banal evil that insinuates itself into society where there is no political conscience. Finally, taking up the purpose of Hannah Arendt's work "The Human Condition", the importance of a continuous and active exercise of politics will be described to counter the so-called single thought that, according to the author herself, led to the prevalence of the totalitarianisms of the last century
Hannah Arendt, lecture on the topic of thinking, delivered at the University of Chicago, circa 1963-1975
No full textLecture given by Hannah Arendt on the topic ‚Äúdoes thinking matter,‚Äù produced by the University of Chicago for the program From the Midway, circa 1963-1975. The recording begins after Arendt‚s lecture is already in progress. Author, educator, and philosopher Hannah Arendt was professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, from 1963-1975
Fairy
No full textPublisher's synopsis: A mother and her young son are lost in the woods. Things are beginning to go wrong. And then they meet a stranger on the path…
Julia Bell is the author of three novels - most recently The Dark Light - and three volumes of short stories. She is also co-editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook and a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.
Writer: Julia Bell
Reader: Bryony Hannah
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio
The Scenography of Suicide: Terror, Politics and the Humiliated Witness
No full textIt is argued here that the politics of suicide bombings can be seen to operate through the aesthetic responses they produce, insofar as these responses are provoked and in that they necessarily mobilise further responses. The article considers the scene of devastation created by a Chechen suicide bomber in Moscow in 2003. Drawing upon a reading of the political theory of Hannah Arendt that ties her to the tradition of thinking the sublime, it suggests that the 'aesthetic' impact of the scene dislocates the witness as well as simultaneously locating her/him in this world, a world in which such things happen. This location is a prompting to consider the world-in-common, the movements of the world, in a parallel sense to that in which the notion of the sublime has been employed to describe how the particular can have the ability to usher forth a feeling that there may be a super-sensible purposiveness to nature. At this prompting, the subject is humiliated and limited, since s/he becomes aware of the impossibility of adequately answering such questions, while 'ethically' her/his task is to nevertheless attempt some articulation of the connections so prompted. The article considers various ways in which that articulation might take place in relation to the Moscow bombing, and argues that these contested articulations constitute the 'political' level prompted in response to a scene of horror whose impact operates on the level of sensibility
Shane and Hannah Burcaw
No full textShane Burcaw is the author of the bestselling memoir, Laughing at My Nightmare, which was shortlisted for the ALA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. He has also published the essay collection Strangers Assume that My Girlfriend Is My Nurse and is at work with his wife Hannah on a collection of stories about interabled couples. His blog, Laughing At My Nightmare, about the humor of living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, has over half a million followers and he and his wife’s You Tube channel, Squirmy and Grubs, has nearly 1 million subscribers
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