In 2024, the Hannah Arendt Days Hanover will once again be hosted at Villa Seligmann.
This year’s salon talk is entitled “Radically emotional: challenges and perspectives in the culture of debate”.
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. Welcoming remarks Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck, Artistic and Managing Director of Villa Seligmann Eva Bender, Head of the Department of Education and Culture, City of Hanover Salon discussion Prof. Dr. Maren Urner, Professor of Sustainable Transformation, Münster University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dr. Ulrich Kühn Admission is free. Registration from September 12 at: hat@hannover-stadt.de
The salon talk as part of the HANNAH ARENDT DAYS is an event organized by the City of Hanover in collaboration with Villa Seligmann.
