Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz

Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz

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.

Episodes

Eichmann in Jerusalem: The First Solution: Expulsion (Ep. 4)

April 19, 2024 • 68 mins
The fourth episode of our Eichmann in Jerusalem series of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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. H...
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: An Expert On The Jewish Question (Ep. 3)

April 5, 2024 • 57 mins
The third episode of our Eichmann in Jerusalem series of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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...
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Accused (Ep. 2)

March 22, 2024 • 62 mins
The second episode of our Eichmann in Jerusalem series of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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. H...
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Eichmann In Jerusalem: The House Of Justice (Ep. 1)

March 8, 2024 • 58 mins
The first episode (of the second book) in our Podcast series, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 Colleg...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government (Ep. 14)

February 22, 2024 • 61 mins
The 14th episode of our Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 a...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism in Power (Episode 13)

February 8, 2024 • 67 mins
The 13th episode of our Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 a...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Totalitarian Movement (Episode 12)

February 1, 2024 • 58 mins
The 12th episode of our Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 a...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: A Classless Society (Episode 11)

January 19, 2024 • 65 mins
The eleventh episode of our Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 pa...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man (Episode 10)

December 21, 2023 • 63 mins
The tenth episode of our Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 ...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements (Episode 9)

December 14, 2023 • 67 mins
The ninth episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 ...
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Special on Friendship #4: Gershom Scholem

December 7, 2023 • 42 mins

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 ...

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Friendship Special #3 Jaspers

November 30, 2023 • 42 mins

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 ou...

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Origins of Totalitarianism: Race and Bureaucracy (Episode 8)

November 26, 2023 • 63 mins
The eighth episode of our new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 ...
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Special on Friendship #2: Socrates

November 16, 2023 • 43 mins

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 o...

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Origins of Totalitarianism: Race-Thinking Before Racism (Episode 7)

November 13, 2023 • 70 mins
The seventh episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie (Episode 6)

November 2, 2023 • 65 mins
The sixth episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 p...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Dreyfus Affair (Episode 5)

October 26, 2023 • 70 mins
The fifth episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 p...
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Special on Friendship: Humanity in Dark Times, Lessing

October 19, 2023 • 53 mins

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 ou...

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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews and Society (Chapter 3)

October 12, 2023 • 53 mins
The fourth episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 ...
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism (Chapter 2)

October 5, 2023 • 67 mins
The third episode of the new Podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. 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 ...
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