{"id":26836,"date":"2026-09-22T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26836"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:00:16","slug":"philosophy-department-to-host-scholar-guido-parietti-for-hannah-arendt-anniversary-lecture-sept-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/09\/22\/philosophy-department-to-host-scholar-guido-parietti-for-hannah-arendt-anniversary-lecture-sept-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Department to host scholar Guido Parietti for Hannah Arendt anniversary lecture, Sept. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26849 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/Parietti.jpg?resize=194%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Guido Parietti\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/Parietti.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/Parietti.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/Parietti.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 194px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 194\/194;\" \/>The first speaker in the UDM Philosophy Department\u2019s 2026-27 Public Lecture Series will be Guido Parietti, assistant professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n<p>In commemoration of the 120th anniversary of German thinker Hannah Arendt\u2019s birth, Parietti\u2019s lecture, \u201cWhy Politics? Why Arendt?\u201d will explore her infamous answer to a fundamental question of our age: what is politics for?<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place <strong>Tuesday, Sept. 29, from 4-5:30 p.m.<\/strong> in the Warren Loranger Architecture Building Exhibition Space and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Parietti is the author of <em>On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics<\/em> (Oxford, 2022) and has published numerous works on deliberative democracy, political theology and the philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Thomas Hobbes.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Kieran Aarons at <a href=\"mailto:aaronska@udmercy.edu\">aaronska@udmercy.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first installment of the UDM Philosophy Department\u2019s 2026-27 Public Lecture Series will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 29, featuring Guido Parietti, assistant professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy at Michigan State University. 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Why Arendt?\u201d will explore German thinker Hannah Arendt\u2019s infamous answer to a fundamental question of our age: what is politics for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":26849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[6164,6165,331,205,7247],"class_list":["post-26836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccnews","category-student-announcements","tag-chass","tag-college-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences","tag-lecture-series","tag-philosophy","tag-philosophy-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6YQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/Parietti.jpg?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26850,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions\/26850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}