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Laughing at Criminals
Laughing at Criminals
Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jun 3, 2024
An End-of-Year Letter from our Founder, Roger Berkowitz
An End-of-Year Letter from our Founder, Roger Berkowitz
Dear Friends,
The Hannah Arendt Center
Dec 24, 2023
An Open Letter To My Friends Who Signed “Philosophy for Palestine”
An Open Letter To My Friends Who Signed “Philosophy for Palestine”
Seyla Benhabib
The Hannah Arendt Center
Nov 4, 2023
Ideological Politics From Nazism and Communism to Settler Colonialism
Ideological Politics From Nazism and Communism to Settler Colonialism
Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center
Nov 3, 2023
Normalizing Corruption And Its Limits
Normalizing Corruption And Its Limits
Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jun 11, 2023
The Greatest Achievement: Arendt and Art
The Greatest Achievement: Arendt and Art
Max L. Feldman
The Hannah Arendt Center
Feb 26, 2023
Rage and Reason: Why Hypocrisy is the Political Vice of Our Times
Rage and Reason: Why Hypocrisy is the Political Vice of Our Times
Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center
Oct 16, 2022
Is it Too Late to Revitalize Democracy?
Is it Too Late to Revitalize Democracy?
Democratic Innovation on the Eve of Climate Collapse David Van Reybrouck
The Hannah Arendt Center
Aug 21, 2022
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Republicanism, and Citizen Power
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Republicanism, and Citizen Power
The Hannah Arendt Center just published its 10th Annual HA Journal, featuring the edited transcripts of talks given at our 2021 Conference…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Aug 14, 2022
The Habits of Democracy
The Habits of Democracy
Roger Berkowitz On May 31, 1887, William James gave a speech dedicating a monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jan 7, 2021
Bare Life and the Animal Laborans
Bare Life and the Animal Laborans
Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center
Mar 23, 2020
Gerrymandering and State Power
Gerrymandering and State Power
Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Majority Opinion for the Supreme Court last week in Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts’ opinion refused to…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jun 30, 2019
The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris
The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris
One fine Sunday morning, at the age of five or six, I discovered the Holocaust. My father, a high school history teacher, was preparing a…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jun 2, 2019
A Eulogy for Jacques Taminiaux
A Eulogy for Jacques Taminiaux
By Kazue Koishikawa
The Hannah Arendt Center
May 22, 2019
In Memoriam: Jacques Taminiaux
In Memoriam: Jacques Taminiaux
by Jerome Kohn
The Hannah Arendt Center
May 22, 2019
The Fundamental Chord: Remembering Carl Heidenreich
The Fundamental Chord: Remembering Carl Heidenreich
The story of painter Carl Heidenreich (1901–1965) sounds familiar, even if his name and work are not. Born in the Bavarian spa town Bad…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Mar 24, 2019
Outside the Pale of the Law: Rightlessness on Reality TV in Christoph Schlingensief’s Bitte Liebt…
Outside the Pale of the Law: Rightlessness on Reality TV in Christo...
“Ausländer Raus” said the sign, black and white in block capitals. “Foreigners Out.” An unambiguous, if unrealistic, slogan like this…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Feb 14, 2019
The Day After the Explosion: Art of the First Czechoslovakian Republic, 1918–1938
The Day After the Explosion: Art of the First Czechoslovakian Repub...
The First World War was, for Hannah Arendt, indescribable. Before and after the war are separated, she said “not like the end of an old…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jan 13, 2019
Judging the Private Lives of Others
Judging the Private Lives of Others
Why do people go along with behavior that makes them feel uncomfortable and violated?
The Hannah Arendt Center
Aug 18, 2018
The Fragility of Persons and the Need for the Imaginary Domain
The Fragility of Persons and the Need for the Imaginary Domain
In this paper, I will argue that embodied human beings demand many forms of so-called “public support” in order to engage in the project…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Aug 18, 2018
Know Your Lane
Know Your Lane
The Nation in July published a short poem “How-To” by Anders Carlson-Wee. The poem will not be remembered as a great work of art, but it is…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Aug 6, 2018
What Does It Mean to Educate Citizens?
What Does It Mean to Educate Citizens?
A version of this piece was originally published in Volume 3 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jul 28, 2018
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism
Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, which was published in 1951, reversed the then conventional wisdom about the emergence of…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jul 22, 2018
Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism
Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil,...
This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jul 21, 2018
Show me the birth certificate!
Show me the birth certificate!
This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
The Hannah Arendt Center
Jul 15, 2018
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