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The Public and Private Realm | The Human Condition, Sections 7, 8, 9
October 23, 2026 · 49 minPodcast 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…
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Hannah Arendt's Moral and Legal Philosophy with David Luban | Bonus Episode
October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 19 minRecorded 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…
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Man, The Polis, and the Rise of the Social | The Human Condition
October 9, 2026 · 58 minIn 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…
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A World We Share | Bonus Episode
October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minIn 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…
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Vita Activa | The Human Condition
September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minPodcast 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…
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Solidarity and the Immigration Debate with David Lapp, Jim Robb, and Diego Sanchez | Bonus Episode
September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minIn 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…
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Prologue | The Human Condition
September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minWe'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…
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Identity, Embodiment, and Politics with Nikita Nelin '09 | Bonus Episode
August 28, 2026 · 53 minIn this bonus episode, host Roger Berkowitz speaks with writer and somatic coach Nikita Nelin '09 about identity, embodiment, and politics. Nelin describes his grandfather, who pursued acting only after being told to “take off the combat…
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Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging with Samantha Fazekas | Bonus Episode
August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minRoger Berkowitz speaks with Samantha Fazekas about her book Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging (De Gruyter Brill, 2025). Fazekas argues that judging became central for Arendt as she confronted unprecedented political events like…
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Home to Roost | Responsibility and Judgment
August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minHost Roger Berkowitz closes our discussion of Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgment with her final public speech, “Home to Roost” (1975), presented as Arendt’s last assessment of the crisis of the U.S. republic. He highlights her…
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The Deputy & Auschwitz on Trial | Responsibility and Judgment
July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minFocusing on two essays from Responsibility and Judgment—Arendt’s 1964 review of Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy and her 1966 introduction to Bernd Naumann’s Auschwitz on Trial—podcast host Roger Berkowitz traces Arendt’s insistence that…
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Reflections on Little Rock | Responsibility and Judgment
July 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minThere's a shift in Hannah Arendt's Responsibility and Judgment from essays on moral and political responsibility to shorter essays of judgment about particular events, beginning with her controversial 1957 “Reflections on Little Rock.” In…
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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.