Introduction

The initial purpose for which this website has been created is to establish a clearinghouse for information that the many individuals and institutions throughout the world interested in Hannah Arendt’s work—in Hannah Arendt’s thinking—wish to share. 

The website will function as a forum, a virtual public space, enabling people all over the world to meet and communicate.  

This website is a preliminary version of what will eventually be a much more extensive site, with educational materials, a timeline, photographs, literature guides, information about publications, and so forth. The fuller website will be oriented toward showing Hannah Arendt’s relevance for our contemporary world –and in this it will be following the thematic orientation of all the conferences listed on this site. If you would like to be notified of the launch date for the full hannaharendt.org site, please send your email address to info@hannaharendt .org.

This website is sponsored by a group chaired by Jerome Kohn, director of the New York based Hannah Arendt Organization, which is a not-for-profit organization operating in cooperation with the Hannah Arendt Archive at The New School for Social Research, the Hannah Arendt Center at Carl von Ossietzky University in Germany, the Hannah Arendt Library at Bard College, the Hannah Arendt Literary Trust, the Hannah Arendt Newsletter, and all other centers, circles, and societies dedicated to preserving the legacy of the great twentieth century political thinker.