Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Close readings of Hannah Arendt's works • Political philosophy • Revolutionary thought • Public and private freedom • Willing, thinking, and judging • Interviews with thinkers • Modern societal challenges
This podcast, "Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz," delves into the works of the influential German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. The episodes consistently feature close readings of Arendt’s books alongside interviews and discussions that aim to illuminate contemporary issues through her philosophical lens. The central focus lies in exploring themes such as political freedom, revolution, totalitarianism, and the human condition.
Arendt’s analyses of major revolutions, including the American and French revolutions, frequently surface, as do her thoughts on the social and political distinctions that underpin these events. The podcast also addresses Arendt’s exploration of concepts like public versus private happiness, the role of intellectuals in politics, and her controversial views on topics such as poverty, compassion, and pity.
In addition to Arendt's revolutionary themes, the podcast regularly investigates her examinations of mental activities. This includes in-depth explorations of Arendt’s unfinished work "The Life of the Mind," which probes the nature of thinking, willing, and judging. Discussions often emphasize the philosophical significance of these mental faculties and their implications for human freedom and action.
Guest interviews, bonus episodes, and collaborative conversations extend the range of topics to contemporary political movements, the dynamics of tribalism, and deliberative democracy. These discussions frequently highlight Arendt’s insights on the role of friendship, trust, and civic engagement in nurturing democratic processes and addressing society's current challenges.
Overall, this podcast offers a thoughtful engagement with Arendt's works, seeking to connect her philosophical insights with present-day political and social dynamics.
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Episodes:
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The Pursuit of Happiness | On Revolution, Chapter 3
2025-Oct-31
49 minutes
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The Social Question, Parts IV-VI | On Revolution, Chapter 2
2025-Oct-24
65 minutes
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Joy and Fearlessness in Dark Times with Lisa Cypers Kamen | Bonus Episode
2025-Oct-10
58 minutes
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The Social Question, Parts I-III | On Revolution, Chapter 2
2025-Oct-03
59 minutes
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The Meaning of Revolution | On Revolution, Chapter 1
2025-Sep-26
60 minutes
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War and Revolution | On Revolution, Introduction
2025-Sep-19
59 minutes
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Conclusions, Sections 13, 14, and 15 | The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter IV
2025-Sep-12
69 minutes
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Unpacking Trump's Revolution with Roger Berkowitz | Bonus Episode
2025-Sep-05
35 minutes
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The Power of Voice with Sonita Alizadeh (Bard '23) | Bonus Episode
2025-Aug-29
34 minutes
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Examining Totalitarian Trends with Greg Feldman | Bonus Episode
2025-Aug-22
55 minutes
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Plato and the Tyrant with James Romm | Bonus Episode
2025-Aug-15
35 minutes
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Will and Intellect, Sections 11 and 12 | The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter 3
2025-Aug-08
61 minutes
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Quaestio mihi factus sum, Sections 9 and 10 | The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter 2
2025-Aug-01
64 minutes
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Quaestio mihi factus sum, Sections 7 and 8 | The Life of the Mind, Book II, Willing, Chapter 2
2025-Jul-25
60 minutes
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About Reading Hannah Arendt (Trailer)
2025-Jul-21
1 minute
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The Philosophers and the Will, Sections 4, 5, and 6 | The Life of the Mind, Book II, Willing, Chapter 1
2025-Jul-18
55 minutes
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Montez Press Radio: The Politics of Friendship with Uday Mehta | Bonus Episode
2025-Jul-11
53 minutes
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Staying Decent in an Indecent Society with Ian Buruma | Bonus Episode
2025-Jul-04
57 minutes
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Willing, Sections 1, 2, and 3 | The Life of the Mind, Introduction and Syllabus
2025-Jun-27
54 minutes
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Can Deliberation Cure Democracy? with James Fishkin | Bonus Episode
2025-Jun-20
52 minutes
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Where Are We When We Think? Sections 20-21 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 4
2025-Jun-13
48 minutes
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What Makes Us Think? Sections 18-19 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
2025-Jun-06
60 minutes
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What Makes Us Think? Sections 16-17 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
2025-May-30
53 minutes
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What Makes Us Think? Sections 14-15 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
2025-May-23
57 minutes
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Exploring the New Critical Edition of The Life of the Mind | Bonus Episode
2025-May-16
43 minutes
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Mental Activities in a World of Appearances, Section 13 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 2
2025-May-09
48 minutes
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Mental Activities in a World of Appearances, Sections 11-12 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 2
2025-May-02
52 minutes
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Mental Activities in a World of Appearances, Sections 9-10 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 2
2025-Apr-25
52 minutes
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Appearance, Section 8 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 1
2025-Apr-18
52 minutes
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Hannah Arendt's Legacy with Celso Lafer | Bonus Episode
2025-Apr-11
55 minutes
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Appearance, Sections 6-7 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 1
2025-Apr-04
58 minutes
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Appearance, Sections 4-5 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 1
2025-Mar-28
43 minutes
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Appearance, Sections 1-3 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 1
2025-Mar-21
56 minutes
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Thinking, Introduction | The Life of the Mind, Volume One
2025-Mar-14
69 minutes
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On the Revolutionary Spirit with Neil Roberts and Jess Feldman | Bonus Episode
2025-Mar-07
39 minutes
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The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man | Between Past and Future, Chapter 8 (final chapter)
2025-Feb-28
58 minutes
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Tribalism and the Human Condition with Sebastian Junger | Bonus Episode
2025-Feb-21
43 minutes
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Truth and Politics, Parts 4 + 5 | Between Past and Future, Chapter 7
2025-Feb-14
61 minutes
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Truth and Politics – Parts 1-3 | Between Past and Future, Chapter 7
2025-Feb-07
57 minutes
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On Citizen Assemblies with Nick Romeo | Bonus Episode
2025-Jan-31
44 minutes
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The Roundtable: On Civil Disobedience - Thoreau, Arendt, King | Bonus Episode
2025-Jan-24
50 minutes
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The Equivocations of Tribalism with Uday Mehta | Bonus Episode
2025-Jan-17
52 minutes
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Are We a Tribe? A Conversation with Ayishat Akanbi and Thomas Chatterton Williams | Bonus Episode
2025-Jan-10
55 minutes
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HAC's Year in Review with Jana and Roger Part 2 | Bonus Episode
2025-Jan-03
22 minutes
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HAC's Year in Review with Jana and Roger, Part 1 | Bonus Episode
2024-Dec-27
32 minutes
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The Crisis in Culture, Part 2 | Between Past and Future, Chapter 6
2024-Dec-20
47 minutes
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The Bulletin: Mobs, Movements, and MAGA with Roger Berkowitz | Bonus Episode
2024-Dec-13
43 minutes
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Arendt's Gratitude for the World | Bonus Episode
2024-Dec-06
8 minutes
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The Crisis in Culture, Part 1 | Between Past and Future, Chapter 6
2024-Nov-29
58 minutes
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The Crisis in Education | Between Past and Future, Chapter 5
2024-Nov-22
48 minutes
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What is Freedom | Between Past and Future, Chapter 4, Parts 3-4
2024-Nov-15
56 minutes
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What is Freedom | Between Past and Future, Chapter 4, Parts 1-2
2024-Nov-08
55 minutes
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What is Authority | Between Past and Future, Chapter 3, Parts 3-6
2024-Nov-01
49 minutes
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Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism with Roger Berkowitz | Bonus Episode
2024-Oct-25
28 minutes
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What is Authority | Between Past and Future, Chapter 3, Parts 1 + 2
2024-Oct-18
46 minutes
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The Concept of History, Parts III and Epilogue | Between Past and Future, Chapter 2
2024-Oct-11
54 minutes
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On Tribalism with Sebastian Junger | Bonus Episode
2024-Oct-04
44 minutes
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The Concept of History, Parts I and II | Between Past and Future, Chapter 2
2024-Sep-27
55 minutes
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Tradition and the Modern Age | Between Past and Future, Chapter 1
2024-Sep-20
50 minutes
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Preface | Between Past and Future
2024-Sep-13
50 minutes
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Politics is About Power | Bonus Episode
2024-Sep-06
29 minutes
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Q&A on Eichmann in Jerusalem | Bonus Episode
2024-Aug-30
37 minutes
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Conversation with John McWhorter and Ayishat Akanbi at the Alpine Fellowship Symposium on Language | Bonus Episode
2024-Aug-23
47 minutes
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An Arendtian Perspective on Fake Quotes | Bonus Episode
2024-Aug-16
40 minutes
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A Conversation with Bill T. Jones on Respectful Disagreement | Bonus Episode
2024-Aug-09
23 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Bettina Stangneth
2024-Aug-02
59 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Postscript
2024-Jul-26
60 minutes
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A Conversation with Leon Botstein on Campus Protest | Bonus Episode
2024-Jul-12
31 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Epilogue
2024-Jul-05
58 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Judgment, Appeal, And Execution
2024-Jun-28
46 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Evidence And Witnesses
2024-Jun-14
58 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Killing Centers
2024-Jun-07
61 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Deportations
2024-May-31
50 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Duties of a Law-Abiding Citizen
2024-May-24
54 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Wannsee Conference, Or Pontius Pilate
2024-May-17
59 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Final Solution: Killing
2024-May-10
55 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Second Solution: Concentration
2024-May-03
50 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The First Solution: Expulsion
2024-Apr-19
68 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: An Expert On The Jewish Question
2024-Apr-05
57 minutes
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Accused
2024-Mar-22
62 minutes
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Eichmann In Jerusalem: The House Of Justice
2024-Mar-08
58 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government
2024-Feb-22
61 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism in Power
2024-Feb-08
67 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Totalitarian Movement
2024-Feb-01
58 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: A Classless Society
2024-Jan-19
65 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man
2023-Dec-21
63 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements
2023-Dec-14
67 minutes
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Special on Friendship #4: Gershom Scholem
2023-Dec-07
42 minutes
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Friendship Special #3 Jaspers
2023-Nov-30
42 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Race and Bureaucracy
2023-Nov-26
63 minutes
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Special on Friendship #2: Socrates
2023-Nov-16
43 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Race-Thinking Before Racism
2023-Nov-13
70 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie
2023-Nov-02
65 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Dreyfus Affair
2023-Oct-27
70 minutes
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Special on Friendship: Humanity in Dark Times, Lessing
2023-Oct-19
53 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews and Society
2023-Oct-12
53 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism
2023-Oct-05
67 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense
2023-Sep-28
59 minutes
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Origins of Totalitarianism: The Prefaces
2023-Sep-14
50 minutes
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Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part 3
2021-Apr-05
29 minutes
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