Readings

April: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, § Preface; § 2.1: Sense Experience; § 2.3: The Thing and the Natural World

March: Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, § 1 and § 2

February: Hayden White’s The Content of the Form, § 1 and § 3

January: Hannah Arendt’s Thinking Without a Banister, Intro. and § 1

Secondary Resources

  • In a 1964 interview with Günter Gaus, Hannah Arendt discusses labor and consumption and the dethroning of the importance of the political by the modern period, which she associates with the breakdown of tradition and the resulting rootlessness and loneliness of the masses in the modern world.