Events for May 5, 2024

Understanding Group Think and Selfhood with the Help of Hoffer and Orwell

On May 18, Colin Stetter will give the thirteenth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know?" The past 100 years has seen the rise of a variety of mass movements, promoting just as varied motives and goals. This class will explore Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer in an [...]

How Totalitarianism Unites: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.

The eighth talk in the series "Gutenberg Dialogues:  An In-depth Look at Tyranny" Teacher: Walter Steeb Walter Steeb graduated from Gutenberg in 2009 and is now the college's operations officer. He has an M.A. in Philosophy of Theology from Northwest Christian University where he wrote his thesis on French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. He and [...]