Author Meets Critics: Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging

What does it mean to judge - politically, morally, in public life? Hannah Arendt left that question unfinished. This symposium examines Samantha Fazekas' new work, Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging (De Gruyter, 2025), which reconstructs Arendt's unwritten theory of judgment through a close reading of Kant's aesthetic judgment, and asks what it means for how we think about politics today.

With responses from scholars at Trinity College Dublin, Paderborn University, the University of Freiburg, Bard College, and the University of Toronto.

Admission is free. Please RSVP via the link below.

2 June

Venue: TRiSS Seminar Room (6th floor Arts Building)

Program:

9.00-9.30 Coffee & Welcome

9.30-10.00 Dr. Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin)

10.00-11.00 Prof. Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin)

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.15 Dr. Maria Robazkiewicz (Paderborn University)

12.15-13.45 Lunch

13.45-14.45 Prof. Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto)

14.45-15.45 Prof. Roger Berkowitz (Bard College) [online]

15.45-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.00 Dr. Astrid Hähnlein (University of Freiburg)