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How do we reknit a community once shattered? How do we pick up the thread of a tradition once lost? If authority has been abandoned by breach of trust or unwillingness to take responsibility, how can it possibly be reestablished?
Recent experience has marked many of our lives with these questions. In this seminar, Dr. Storey and seminar participants will explore how twentieth-century political thinker Hannah Arendt drew on the history and philosophy of the Western tradition in an effort to understand how to recover from social, cultural and political ruptures. Through readings from Arendt’s essays in
Between Past and Future, students will explore what it might take to recreate the conditions for the kind of community human beings need to find their place in the world.
The seminar will take place on March 19-21 at the Buckley Institute office in New Haven. Participants will be expected to complete a moderate amount of reading prior to the seminar. Students will receive free course materials, lunch and dinner will be provided for the duration of the seminar, and those who complete the full seminar will be eligible to receive a $150 stipend.
Priority applications will be considered through January 31, 2025. Please direct any questions to
kyle@buckleyinstitute.com.
This seminar is open to current Yale undergraduate and graduate students.
Jenna Silber Storey is a Senior Fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Division of the American Enterprise Institute and a Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously taught political philosophy at Furman University, where she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, and Executive Director of Furman’s Tocqueville Program. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, First Things, and The National Endowment for the Humanities flagship journal,
Humanities. Dr. Storey is the co-author, with her husband Ben, of
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton University Press, 2021). They are currently working on a book titled
The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life.
