The Hannah Arendt Days 2024 in Hanover: Without ifs and buts? “What freedom is and can be”
Hannah Arendt has always dealt with controversial topics – in her texts and in front of an audience. But the style of public debate has changed profoundly; public discourse has become heated and hurtful. In addition, digital mass communication accelerates and intensifies debates, which become all the more emotionally charged the stronger the calls for more rationality. It seems almost impossible to return to constructive communication and develop solutions to problems.
How can this dilemma be resolved? For Maren Urner, politics should be understood as a negotiation process about different feelings and can be emotional. People argue about controversial ideas of freedom based on their feelings, e.g. on questions of mobility or nutrition. The neuroscientist analyzes how emotions work in politics and explains tools for dealing with them better. This also requires an update of our understanding of freedom.
Greetings
Anne Remmers, Member of the Board of Villa Seligmann, Advisor in the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony
Eva Bender, Head of the Department of Education and Culture, City of Hanover
Salongespräch
Prof. Dr. Maren Urner, Professor for Sustainable Transformation, Münster University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Ulrich Kühn
A student debate will take place before the salon discussion at 5 pm. More info and registration
Admission is free.
Registration only at: hat@hannover-stadt.deThe event is fully booked. Seats are still available for the debate at 5 pm.
The salon talk as part of the HANNAH ARENDT DAYS is an event organized by the City of Hanover in collaboration with Villa Seligmann.