Hannah Arendt and the Philosophy of Natality
A Conversation with Jennifer Banks
12.00-1.30pm | Friday, April 12
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
Socrates called philosophy a preparation for death and there is a long tradition of treating the contemplation of death as the beginning of wisdom. But birth has received remarkably little attention. What if we were to subject the phenemenon of birth to the same sustained reflection traditionally accorded to death?
Jennifer Banks is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, “natural” ruin is ultimately the fact of natality.
—Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition