American Academy Lecture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Public Freedom and Private Happiness: Hannah Arendt and the American Revolution
What is the relationship between public freedom and private joy?
19 Nov 2025
19:00 – 20:30
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Am Wingertsberg 4
61348 Bad Homburg
This event took place on November 19, 2025.
American Academy Lecture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Public Freedom and Private Happiness: Hannah Arendt and the American Revolution
In cooperation with John McCloy Transatlantic Forum at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung and Stiftung Orte der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte
Meet the speaker
Karen Feldman is Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and a PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University. Feldman’s research lies at the intersection of philosophy and literary theory, reflecting a philosophical and literary-critical approach to classic texts of the German…
