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This podcast offers close readings of Arendt’s books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations in the spirit of Hannah Arendt, who thought loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection, but the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
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- 1 weeks ago56 min
Labor | The Human Condition, Sections 10, 11, and 12
Host Roger Berkowitz closes chapter 2 of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition with section 10, arguing that the public/private distinction is not simply freedom versus necessity but a question of what must be seen and what must be hidden. Arendt, he explains, defends privacy as the proper realm for activities that are destroyed by publicity—love, birth, and especially “absolute goodness.” The last becomes self-righteous or politically destructive once displayed, a point he links to Machiavelli, Luke 18, and Arendt’s claim that thinking, not goodness, is the antidote to evil. Berkowitz then introduces chapter 3 on labor, outlining Arendt’s tripartite vita activa (labor, work, action), her critique of the modern glorification of labor in Smith and Marx, and her warning that the rise of “the social” threatens both public and private life. ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- 2 weeks ago49 min
The Public and Private Realm | The Human Condition, Sections 7, 8, 9
Podcast host Roger Berkowitz continues a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, focusing on sections 7–9 on the public realm, the private realm and property, and the rise of “the social.” He argues that for Arendt freedom is political action and speech in a shared world, and that reality itself depends on being seen and heard from a plurality of perspectives; the common world both connects and separates us, like people gathered around a table. Berkowitz highlights Arendt’s claim that intensely subjective experiences such as pain and love resist public reality, and her insistence that politics requires a durable world that transcends individual lifespans—an “earthly immortality.” He then explains Arendt’s distinction between property (a stable place that enables privacy and citizenship) and wealth (mobile accumulation), criticizing modern liberal and Marxist reductions of property to wealth and describing how mass society, ideology, and consumerism endanger both public and private life. ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- 3 weeks ago1h 19m
Hannah Arendt's Moral and Legal Philosophy with David Luban | Bonus Episode
Recorded live at Bard College as the inaugural event in the new Hannah Arendt Lecture Series and a bonus episode of the podcast, host Roger Berkowitz interviews Georgetown Law professor David Luban about his book Powers of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Moral and Legal Philosophy. Luban explains how Eichmann in Jerusalem redirected Arendt toward questions of individual responsibility in collective settings, bureaucratic “rule of nobody,” and the banality of evil as culpable ignorance akin to willful blindness. He presents Arendt as both guide and sparring partner, probing her suspicion of moralizing, her separation of morality from politics, and her reliance on Socratic thinking and Kantian judgment. The conversation also examines the “right to have rights,” human dignity, refugees and statelessness, and the problem of complicity and “lesser evil” within institutions, concluding with audience questions on conscience, public action, and advice about moral red lines. ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- 4 weeks ago57 min
Man, The Polis, and the Rise of the Social | The Human Condition
In discussing chapter two, sections 4–6, of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, host Roger Berkowitz argues that, for Arendt, freedom is not a right but an activity of speech and action among equals in a public sphere. He explains her claim that a translation shift to “social animal” obscured the Greek distinction between household necessity (oikos) and political freedom (polis), and that modernity and the nation-state blur public and private through the rise of “the social,” understood as nationwide housekeeping and “political economy.” Join us at Bard College on via livestream at The Arendt Forum, October 15-17, 2026, on Solidarity: What Are We Fighting For? ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- Oct 2, 20261h 6m
A World We Share | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode of the podcast, Jana Tirey (nee Mader) and Roger Berkowitz chat about his forthcoming book, A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Oct. 6, Yale University Press). Berkowitz traces the book’s origins to an Arendt Center conference on Friendship and Politics held shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, and to Arendt’s 1959 Lessing Prize speech on whether Jews and Germans can be friends, which he uses to ask what friendship could mean amid contemporary conflicts. He outlines the book’s four main threads: defining friendship, Arendt’s friendships and writings, friendship as a model for civic politics, and friendship’s limits. They define friendship in terms of face-to-face talk, duration and trust, respect amid disagreement, and they discuss a gendered dimension in Arendt’s friendships, and the claim that friendship—more than truth—binds the polis, alongside Arendt’s test of whether one can “share a world” with someone. Join us at Bard College on via livestream at The Arendt Forum, October 15-17, 2026, on Solidarity: What Are We Fighting For? ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- Sep 25, 20261h 2m
Vita Activa | The Human Condition
Podcast host Roger Berkowitz introduces Arendt’s first chapters of The Human Condition as an inquiry into modern alienation shaped by science and Cartesian inwardness and a search for meaningful life amid irreversible losses. He outlines the vita activa—labor (biological life), work (durable worldliness), and action (speech and plurality, generating history/remembrance)—and Arendt’s shift from “human nature” to “human condition,” emphasizing conditions as nonessential. He traces the term vita activa from bios politikos through medieval devaluation versus contemplation, and explains Arendt’s contrast between Greek immortality (worldly remembrance) and philosophical/Christian eternity (worldlessness). Join us at Bard College on via livestream at The Arendt Forum, October 15-17, 2026, on Solidarity: What Are We Fighting For? ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- Sep 18, 20261h 1m
Solidarity and the Immigration Debate with David Lapp, Jim Robb, and Diego Sanchez | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode of the podcast, host Roger Berkowitz previews the 2026 Arendt Forum at Bard College on Solidarity, framing Arendt’s view of solidarity as an intellectual practice of building a common world through talk rather than sentiment. He is joined by Braver Angels co-founder David Lapp, NumbersUSA’s Jim Robb, and Presidents' Alliance's Diego Sanchez. They describe Braver Angels’ origins in 2016, its red-blue workshops, and the Citizens Commission on Immigration created after Braver Angels’ 2024 convention made immigration a priority. Sanchez, a former undocumented immigrant and now immigration lawyer, and Robb, influenced by Barbara Jordan’s reform agenda, discuss how structured dialogue has enabled opposing advocacy “sides” to meet for the first time. Join us at Bard College on via livestream at The Arendt Forum, October 15-17, 2026, on Solidarity: What Are We Fighting For? ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
- Sep 11, 20261h 10m
Prologue | The Human Condition
We're onto our new read, Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958). Host Roger Berkowitz calls the book a meditation on “thinking what we are doing” as modern science transforms the modern world. In this close read of the prologue, he distinguishes the “modern age” (the scientific revolution from the 17th to early 20th century) from the “modern world” inaugurated by the atomic bomb, Sputnik, automation, and today’s AI, and introduces Arendt’s twofold alienation: world alienation (the Cartesian turn inward) and earth alienation (a flight from earthly givenness through scientific and technological mastery). He argues that scholarship overemphasizes labor/work/action while missing the overarching claim that these core human faculties are being threatened by incomprehensible know-how, loss of speech, and automation. Rate and review if you like this podcast! ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/ More information can be found on our website: https://hac.bard.edu/ Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hannaharendt/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannaharendtcenteratbard/ THE HOST: Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the author of the forthcoming A WORLD WE SHARE: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press; Oct. 6), editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. EDITED BY: Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.
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