Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Discussions on Hannah Arendt's works and philosophy • Commentary on modern political and social issues • Interviews with scholars and thinkers • Examination of historical and contemporary themes
"Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz" is a podcast that combines intellectual discussions and detailed analyses, focusing on the works and ideas of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. This podcast features a blend of close readings of Arendt's texts with interviews and conversations that explore her philosophies in relation to contemporary issues.
Themes within the episodes revolve around political theory, philosophy, and history. The podcast covers a wide array of topics including Arendt's perspectives on totalitarianism, freedom, authority, and the human condition. Episodes delve into detailed examinations of Arendt's unfinished work, "The Life of the Mind," exploring concepts like thinking, willing, and judging. These investigations often include historical and philosophical contexts, referencing thinkers like Socrates, Augustine, Aquinas, and Plato, alongside discussions on modern issues such as democracy, totalitarian trends, and the political significance of cultural and educational crises.
Additional episodes feature guest interviews with scholars and experts in fields related to Arendt's work, emphasizing themes like civil disobedience, tribalism versus cosmopolitanism, and the crisis in contemporary politics. Discussions frequently touch upon historical and current events, drawing parallels to Arendt's ideas about action, freedom, and the role of the individual in society.
Ultimately, the podcast provides a platform for exploring multifaceted philosophical concepts and their relevance today, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of Arendt's legacy and her critical examination of political and social phenomena.
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Episodes:
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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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Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part 2
2021-Apr-05
69 minutes
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Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Part I
2021-Apr-05
72 minutes
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The Amor Mundi Podcast Episode 11: Masha Gessen
2021-Mar-08
56 minutes
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Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: Revitalizing Democracy Through Citizen Assemblies.
2020-May-06
65 minutes
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The Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: The Rule of Nobody
2020-Apr-27
42 minutes
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Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: How to Think About Change
2020-Apr-27
43 minutes
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