7.6.2024, Friday 19:00 Uhr
Natan Sznaider im Gespräch mit Juliane Rebentisch
Venue:
- Aula der HFBK Hamburg, Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg
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On 29 September 1959, publicist and philosopher Hannah Arendt gave an important acceptance speech to the Hamburg Parliament on the occasion of the Lessing Prize award ceremony. "On Humanity in Dark Times" addresses many topics that are still very topical today: It is about a new enlightenment, about intellectual and real freedom of movement, it is also about compassion and friendship as the basis for politics and it is about the limits of solidarity. Central to this is the question of Jewish identity in Europe, because Jews belonged to Europe and at the same time stood outside of European culture. They could not find peace with the world, but neither could they find peace with their own particularism. But Hannah Arendt went one step further in her Hamburg speech by characterising the period after 1945 as a "dark time" and not as the beginning of an era of liberation, echoing Bertolt Brecht's poem "An die Nachgeborenen". Israeli sociologist Natan Sznaider and philosopher and 2017 Lessing Prize winner Juliane Rebentisch, who have both studied Hannah Arendt's work intensively, will talk about the topicality of her speech.
Due to the planned demonstration against right-wing extremism in Hamburg, the discussion will begin at 7 pm.
Public event, free admission, limited number of places
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Natan Sznaider is a sociologist and was a professor at Tel Aviv University of Applied Sciences from 1994 to 2022, holding the chair since 1996. He has taught at Columbia University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He is currently a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS) and will be honoured with the Peace Prize of the Geschwister Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation in 2024.
Juliane Rebentisch studied Philosophy and German Studies at the Free University of Berlin, completed her doctorate at the University of Potsdam in 2002 and her habilitation at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2010. From 2015-2018 she was President of the German Society for Aesthetics. She has been Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Offenbach University of Art and Design since October 2011 and a member of the faculty at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research since 2014. In 2017, she was awarded the Lessing Prize of the City of Hamburg. She will take up her professorship at the HFBK Hamburg in October 2024.