The Atomic Age (Winter 2020)

Assigned reading:

Hannah Arendt, "Introduction into politics" (excerpts), in The Promise of Politics (2008).

(For brief remarks in a more famous published text, see also Arendt, "War and revolution," introduction to On Revolution (1963). [See pp. 14-16 in particular.])

Suggested reading:

N.A.J. Taylor, "On the possibility of an Arendtian nuclear theory," Amor Mundi (2016).

Cara O'Connor, "Arendt, Jaspers, and the politicized physicists," Constellations 20 (2013): 102-120.

Jonathan Schell, "In search of a miracle: Hannah Arendt and the atomic bomb," in S. Benhabib et al., eds., Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt (2010), 247-258.

Waseem Yaqoob, "The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt," Journal of European Studies 44 (2014): 199-234.

[click on image for source]