Forged History - Jason Stanley

Ah! Hannah Arendt
Reading and conversation with Jason Stanley, moderated by Matthias Bormuth

In his new book, Jason Stanley exposes the global strategy of the authoritarian right to rewrite history and erase a century of social progress. The worst fascist movements in human history began in schools. Stanley shows with sharp clarity how education becomes the front line in the fight for democracy. Memory, critical thinking, and freedom are under threat, he warns.

Matthias Bormuth will speak with him about where Stanley's thinking meets that of Hannah Arendt, who in "Truth and Politics" examined the manipulation of historical facts in totalitarian states. Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University who also knows German universities well, belongs - like Arendt - to those committed intellectuals who believe that education and knowledge should encourage controversial shifts in how we understand historical truth and political action. His speech in Frankfurt on the plurality of thought in Judaism stands as further evidence of this.

Supported by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.