Big Stories: Heidegger, Arendt and the Plot of Modernity - Lecture by Professor Karen Feldman, UC Berkeley
Department: European Languages and Studies
Date and Time: October 20, 2014 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Event Details
The Department of European Languages and Studies presents
Karen Feldman, Department of German, UC Berkeley.
Big stories: Heidegger, Arendt and the Plot of Modernity
Heidegger and Arendt, in different ways, view modernity in terms of large story arcs: the forgetting of being on one hand and the loss of the political on the other. These story arcs, however, make use of classic devices of emplotment. The talk will consider the aesthetic and literary aspects of history in Heidegger and Arendt, with reference to Hayden White, Reinhart Koselleck and other theorists at the intersection of literary theory and historiography. Its focus will be on how, in both Heidegger’s and Arendt’s historical accounts of modernity, the connections between events are portrayed according to literary conventions that double as theoretical insights.
Karen Feldman is Associate Professor of German at University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger, and has published articles on topics in aesthetics and literary theory in journals including MLN, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Germanic Review, and in edited volumes.
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