Mittwochsvortrag
11 Jul 2007 · 10.00 pm

Fear, Reverence, Terror. Reading Hobbes Today

Venue: ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308
Organized by Carlo Ginzburg

Program


The name of Thomas Hobbes, the author of Leviathan, has been often evoked after September 11, 2001. Is this reference legitimate? Can Hobbes help us to understand the world in which we live? Can the world in which we live help us to read or re-read Hobbes in a different perspective? The talk will try to answer these questions and to raise some new ones, possibly unexpected.
To decipher the present we have sometimes to turn away from it.

Carlo Ginzburg ist auf Einladung der Direktorin Sigrid Weigel im Juli zu Gast am ZfL.

Media Response

18 Jul 2007
Gerüchteweise

Carlo Ginzburg über Hobbes. Artikel von Patrick Bahners, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 18.7.2007, S. N3

13 Jul 2007
Ohne Furcht kein Staat

Carlo Ginzburg seziert in Berlin Hobbes' Leviathan. Artikel von Tim B. Müller, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 13.7.2007, S. 13