Hannah Arendt

Issue 1.5 Previous Issues

The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction

Richard Martin October 1, 2012 4 Comments Adolf Eichmann Auschwitz Babi Yar massacres Berlin Christopher Browning contemporary literature Daša Drndić European novel Hannah Arendt HHhH historical fiction Jonathan Littell Kurt Franz Laurent Binet Max Aue Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe Primo Levi SS officer The Kindly Ones Thurd Reich Trieste twenty-first-century literature

What voice is suitable to describe the horrors of the Third Reich? From whose perspective should the catastrophic events be narrated? What is the relationship, in such…

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Making Art in Dystopia

Adam Stock August 1, 2012 1 Comment Aldous Huxley bioart capitalism contemporary art dystopia Eduardo Kac George Orwell God's Gardeners Hannah Arendt Ionat Zurr Light Criticism logos Margaret Atwood Oron Catts Oryx and Crake Pig Wings Project Steve Lambert Year of the Flood

When contemporary artists work alongside scientists with “wet hands” in the bioscience laboratory, the results can test both scientific and moral imaginations. New uses of living material raise multiple ethical issues, and a concern for future…

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Issue 1.1 Previous Issues

Empathy After 9/11

Daniel O' Gorman June 1, 2012 8 Comments 9/11 empathy ethics fiction Hannah Arendt judgment Judith Butler Kaja Silverman Michael Rothberg post-9/11 literature trauma

In his book, Empathy and Moral Development, the psychologist Martin Hoffman defines empathic response as ‘the involvement of…

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