Pearl Diving: Writing History after the Break of Tradition
Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York CityThe Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a lecture by Susanne Lüdemann, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, on "Pearl Diving. Writing History after the Break of Tradition". The Pearl Diver is the title of the third part of Hannah Arendt's essay on Walter Benjamin, published in 1968. In this essay, Arendt uses the metaphor…