Deneen on Hannah Arendt in EPPC's The New Atlantis
Tocqueville Forum Director Patrick J. Deneen participated in a symposium on Hannah Arendt's classic 1963 essay, "The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man," in the Fall 2007 issue of The New Atlantis, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's journal on science and technology. The symposium, which was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik (October 4, 1957), asked the commentators to discuss the "human meaning of our celestial aspirations" and to respond to Arendt's argument and debate its relevance today. Deneen's contribution, "Nature, Man, and Common Sense," is available online or in PDF format.
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