#Databases

In the fall of 1970, Hannah Arendt delivered a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy. She was scheduled to teach Kant again in the spring of 1976, though her death in December 1975 prevented her from doing so. Indeed, the fact of her untimely death is central to the story of Arendt’s Kant lectures – both their origin and the scholarly attention given to them.

The digital humanities are up-and-coming, but what’s the buzz all about? We talked with historian Valérie Schafer about the challenges and developments of the humanities in an increasingly fast-paced and data-driven world.