Gefälschte Geschichte

Ah! Hannah Arendt
Reading and discussion with Jason Stanley, moderated by Matthias Bormuth
In his new book, Jason Stanley exposes the global strategy of the authoritarian right to rewrite history and erase a century of social progress. The worst fascist movements in human history began in schools. With a keen eye, Stanley shows how education is becoming the front line in the fight for democracy. Memory, criticism, and freedom are in danger, he warns. Matthias Bormuth will discuss with him where his reflections intersect with those of Hannah Arendt, who examined the manipulation of historical facts in totalitarian states in “Truth and Politics.” For Jason Stanley, who as a professor of philosophy at Yale University is also well acquainted with German universities, belongs—like Arendt—to the ranks of committed intellectuals for whom education and knowledge should foster controversial exchanges of views on historical truths and political action. This is also the message conveyed in the lecture Stanley gave in Frankfurt on the plurality of thought in Judaism.

Supported by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation