Samantha Rose Hill
Associate Faculty, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Samantha Rose Hill is the author of Hannah Arendt (2021) and the editor and translator of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt (forthcoming, 2024). She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, OpenDemocracy, and the journals Public Seminar, Contemporary Political Theory and Theory & Event. www.samantharosehill.com
Written by Samantha Rose Hill
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Meaning and the good life
Beyond authenticity
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves
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Thinkers and theories
The scar of identity
Alexandre Kojève was an immense influence on many French thinkers. What was so compelling about his lectures on Hegel?
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Thinkers and theories
When hope is a hindrance
For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act
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Thinkers and theories
Where loneliness can lead
Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
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