Imagine the following scenarios: -You return to your parents’ home for the holidays, your family greets you with smiles and warm words. You enter your childhood room, ah, at home at last. -You’ve been swamped at work; projects, meetings, and emails consuming your time. You finally catch a break one Sunday afternoon and meet with a good friend. It feels so relieving, you feel like you’re home. -You’re somewhere new and foreign, you don’t know the language, you’re trying to get … [Read more...]
Home & Belonging: The Authors of “At Home with Arendt”
What does home mean? Is it related to a sense of belonging? What, if any, is the connection between the two? And who are we? Whose thoughts are you reading? This blog is written by 4 different scholars: Dr. Rita A. Gardiner, Dr. Katy Fulfer, Harshita Jaiprakash, and Janet Jones. We are a diverse group of scholars. Some of us are interested in bioethics, some in feminist theories, some in education, and some in drug addiction. But we are all intrigued by Hannah Arendt. During the past … [Read more...]