Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz

Eichmann in Jerusalem: An Expert On The Jewish Question

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 3 of Eichmann In Jerusalem: An Expert On The Jewish Question. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a Report on the Banality of Evil. THE HOST Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is editor of The Perils of ...

Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Accused

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 2 of Eichmann In Jerusalem: The Accused. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a Report on the Banality of Evil. THE HOST Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Tec...

Eichmann In Jerusalem: The House Of Justice

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 1 of Eichmann In Jerusalem: The House Of Justice. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a Report on the Banality of Evil. THE HOST Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is editor of The Perils of Invention: L...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 13 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism in Power

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 12 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism in Power. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past auth...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Totalitarian Movement

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 11 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Totalitarian Movement. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past aut...

Origins of Totalitarianism: A Classless Society

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 10 of Origins of Totalitarianism: A Classless Society. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authorita...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 9 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what diff...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 8 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regim...

Special on Friendship #4: Gershom Scholem

Don't miss the fourth and last of our special Friendship podcast series based on our Summer Virtual Reading Group on Arendt & Friendship . Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, was said to have a “genius for friendship.” Known as a political thinker, Arendt wrote to her friend Gershom Scholem that she could never love a state or a political people, but only her friends. For Arendt, “only in misfortune do we find out who our true friends are.” It is our true friends, sh...

Friendship Special #3 Jaspers

Don't miss the third of our special Friendship podcast series based on our Summer Virtual Reading Group on Arendt & Friendship . Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, was said to have a “genius for friendship.” Known as a political thinker, Arendt wrote to her friend Gershom Scholem that she could never love a state or a political people, but only her friends. For Arendt, “only in misfortune do we find out who our true friends are.” It is our true friends, she wrote, “...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Race and Bureaucracy

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 7 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Race and Bureaucracy. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authorita...

Special on Friendship #2: Socrates

Don't miss the second of our special Friendship podcast series based on our Summer Virtual Reading Group on Arendt & Friendship . Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, was said to have a “genius for friendship.” Known as a political thinker, Arendt wrote to her friend Gershom Scholem that she could never love a state or a political people, but only her friends. For Arendt, “only in misfortune do we find out who our true friends are.” It is our true friends, she wrote, ...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Race-Thinking Before Racism

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 5 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Race-Thinking Before Racism. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past au...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 4 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these re...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Dreyfus Affair

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 3 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Dreyfus Affair. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authoritari...

Special on Friendship: Humanity in Dark Times, Lessing

Don't miss the first of our special Friendship podcast series based on our Summer Virtual Reading Group on Arendt & Friendship . Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, was said to have a “genius for friendship.” Known as a political thinker, Arendt wrote to her friend Gershom Scholem that she could never love a state or a political people, but only her friends. For Arendt, “only in misfortune do we find out who our true friends are.” It is our true friends, she wrote, “...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews and Society

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 3 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews and Society. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authorita...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 2 of Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentia...

Origins of Totalitarianism: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 1 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regim...

Origins of Totalitarianism: The Prefaces

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with The Prefaces to Origins of Totalitarianism. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism . In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authoritarian systems. THE H...

Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part 3

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy? This event took place October 16th, 2020 and featured David van Reybrouck, Hélène Landemore, and Roger Berkowitz. Click here to learn more....

Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part 2

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy? This event took place October 16th, 2020 and featured David van Reybrouck, Hélène Landemore, and Roger Berkowitz. Click here to learn more....

Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part I

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy? This event took place October 16th, 2020 and featured David van Reybrouck, Hélène Landemore, and Roger Berkowitz. Click here to learn more....

The Amor Mundi Podcast Episode 11: Masha Gessen

In the latest Amor Mundi Podcast, Roger Berkowitz and Masha Gessen talk about how even amidst the rise of subjectivism and the internalization of the world—what Hannah Arendt calls world alienation—there has remained a commitment to a common or shared world. Yet, it is precisely that common world that today seems endangered, and Gessen asks how language is used in anti-political ways to undermine the world we share. If the common world is shattered, the question is whether a new story can be tol...

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: Revitalizing Democracy Through Citizen Assemblies.

This is episode 10, “Revitalizing Democracy Through Citizen Assemblies.” It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz and Jonas Kunz, co-founder of the Bard Institute for the Revival of Democracy Through Sortition, giving a talk and leading a discussion over Zoom. The talk was organized by Lawrence Davis-Hollander and the Scoville Memorial Library and took place on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Podcast editing and music by Andy Evan Cohen. Additional narration by Janet Bentle...

The Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: The Rule of Nobody

This is episode 9, “The Rule of Nobody,” It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz in a Zoom conversation with Philip K. Howard, lawyer and activist. Howard has written five books including “The Death of Common Sense” and “The Rule of Nobody,” a reference to Hannah Arendt’s description of bureaucratic rule. He also started Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which advocates simplifying government.

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: How to Think About Change

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: The Thrill of Democracy

This is episode 7,”The Thrill of Democracy.” It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz in conversation with Olivia Guaraldo, a political thinker, Professor of Political Thought, and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Verona in Italy. Podcast editing and music by Andy Evan Cohen. Additional narration by Janet Bentley. Illustration by Grant Barnhart.

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: Thinking in Dark Times

This is episode 6,”Thinking in Dark Times.” It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz and Samantha Hill, Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, in a wide-ranging conversation about thinking during the time of the plague. Podcast editing and music by Andy Evan Cohen. Additional narration by Janet Bentley. Illustration by Grant Barnhart.