Jenny Lyn Bader and Roger Berkowitz: Why HANNAH ARENDT Matters

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Hannah Arendt arrived in the United States in 1941, a stateless refugee from Hitler's Germany and occupied France. Had she not escaped from Europe, as a Jew, and one active in Jewish causes, she would almost certainly have died. In 1951 she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, the first of a series of stunningly brilliant and always controversial philosophical works focused on freedom and repression and the nature of political systems. She became a cultural celebrity in 1963 with Eichmann in Jerusalem, where she introduced her concept of "the banality of evil", an idea that even today is as passionately attacked as it is defended. Half a century after her death, she remains one of the most brilliant intellectual figures of the 20th Century, one of the most troubling, and one of the most relevant.

Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader has had a huge success with her play about Hannah Arendt, Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, with a triumphant run at 59 E 59 and more than 100 performances in multiple theaters to date. She has been named a "Visionary Playwright" by Theater Masters. Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is a Professor at Bard and is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and thought of Hannah Arendt.

The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a WHITE WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION. The conversation between Jenny Lyn Bader and Roger Berkowitz will start at 6:15 p.m.

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Special thanks to SEYFARTH SHAW LLP for generously hosting this event and to GLOBAL ARTISTIC INNOVATION, INC. for their support and sponsorship of this event.