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		<title>love of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed one of my favorite teaching experiences ever, a semester of reading Hannah Arendt with about 20 students who were deeply committed to understanding her, debating her ideas critically, and living up to her expectations for integrity and rigor. On the first day, we watched a portion of her 1964 interview on [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35566">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Juergen Habermas (1929-2026)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J&#252;rgen Habermas died on Saturday. His death has been the occasion for several substantial and interesting obituaries. So far, I prefer Gal Beckerman&#8217;s in the New York Times. I took a seminar on Habermas in 1988, when I was a college junior. Georgia Warnke was the professor, and I have kept her useful packet of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35382">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>living life as a story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thesis: It is better to live as if one&#8217;s life were a story, yet many people cannot live that way. A conventional story has a finite number of named characters, many of whom know many of the rest. These characters have constraints and limitations, but they also face at least some consequential choices. The choices [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35270">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jaspers on collective responsibility and polarization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a scene that has certain resonances with the present, although the circumstances were certainly different. &#8230; It was the winter of 1945-6 in Heidelberg, Germany. Karl Jaspers, a distinguished professor, offered a lecture to a room full of demobilized solders, women, displaced civilians, and a fair number of wounded. Jaspers had been banned [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35215">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a vivid sense of the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My conception of the relatively distant future is almost empty. How things will be in 20 years, or 50&#8211;I have no idea. I am not motivated or inspired by any such vision. Walter Benjamin would not approve. He concludes his &#8220;Theses on the Philosophy of History&#8221; with these words: We know that the Jews were [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35195">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sadness is a Light Kindled in the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1943, Hannah Arendt published an article entitled &#8220;We Refugees&#8221; in a Jewish-oriented New York magazine, Menorah Journal. Here she observes that her fellow exiles act like optimists in public, for they want to banish their terrors and assimilate to an optimistic American society. The exceptions are the ones who can&#8217;t maintain the appearance and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35155">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>how Hannah Arendt moved away from pure thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystics have often advised that by turning our minds inward, we may find freedom. For instance, Marcus Aurelius restates a Greco-Roman commonplace when he writes, &#8220;You have power over your mind&#8212;not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. &#8230;. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35129">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hannah Arendt seminar</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35123</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the syllabus of the seminar on Hannah Arendt that I will teach this semester. (I&#8217;d still accept suggestions!) I&#8217;ve removed all the practical information except for my policy on AI, just in case that&#8217;s useful for other teachers. Hannah Arendt (1906-75) personally experienced some of the great events of the 20th century, interacted [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Way of Skepticism</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35037</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greek philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a pitch for a book that I have finished drafting, with the title The Way of Skepticism: In 2025, I was invited to give philosophy lectures in Kyiv, Ukraine (on the day of the third-worst bombardment in the war so far) and then at two Palestinian universities in the occupied West Bank. In [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35037">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the ham actor and the psychopath: Adorno on Trump and Musk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not my style to apply psychoanalytic categories to political phenomena. I generally want to take explicit political claims at face value, whether I find them appealing or awful. I see this as a way of treating other people as fellow citizens. Besides, I have little background in psychoanalysis and sometimes doubt whether it [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33704">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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